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Sketches of 


The Beusse and Evans 

Families 


and 

Items of Interest to 
family and friends 


Compiled by 
J. H. BEUSSE 
AthenSy Qa. 


M ay, 1923 


The McGregor Co.—Printers 




DEDICATED TO 

My mother and father, who have gone 
to the great “Beyond,” and to my kins¬ 
men, who are living, and to my chil¬ 
dren, and to their children to follow. 

No man had a better father and mother 
than I; my father had one of the 
sweetest and most even tempered 
dispositions any man ever had. 

And to my dear mother, who loved 
her children next to her God. The 
memory of my father and mother will 
always be sweet to me until I join them 
in the Home in Heaven. 

May 1st, 1923. .. J. H. Beusse. 



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C> . - 


V 


An Appreciation 


In my boyhood days, it was my good fortune to have as friends tw T o 
of the dearest and most lovable Christians it was ever my pleasure 
to know. 

They were loved by every citizen, white and black, in Athens and 
the surrounding country, who knew them. I have reference to Rev. 
Chares W. Lane, D.D., who served the First Presbyterian Church 
from February 2, 1873, until the time of his death, June 13th, 1896, 
and to Rev. Ellison D. Stone, who was a Methodist preacher and who 
owned and ran a job printing business. 

They preached in simplicity, they adored The Doctrine, their life 
was one long connected prayer. They served God and man; their 
works do follow. Their memory is a benediction. 

On my young manhood they left a lasting impression of their love 
for God. 

At the present time we have some lovely characters in the preachers 
of the different churches in Athens, and there is no finer man in 
Athens today than the present pastor of the First Presbyterian 
Church, Rev. Eugene L. Hill, D.D. He is loved by all the people of 
Athens and to know him is to love him. May his life be long and 
full of usefulness. 

J .H. BEUSSE. 

March 20th, 1923. 



Our Neighbors 


“It is the song you sing, and the smile you wear, that makes the 
sunshine everywhere. ’ ’ 

That is the condition under which the family of Henry Beusse was 
raised, on Oconee Street, at the intersection of Foundry Street, and 
no family was ever blessed with better neighbors. That was the day 
when neighbors counted for something. 

There were the Mason family, David Michael and wife, and their 
children, Miss Rachel, Simon and Moses; I. Morris and his family; 
ihe Palmer family; the Bailey family; Robert Hodgson and Miss Ann 
Hodgson; E. R. Hodgson and his family, composed of Miss Lizzie, 
Prince, Asbury, William, Robert, Tom, Albon, Joe, George, Frederick 
and Guy. Then there was the Dorsey family, A. S. Dorsey and his 
good wife, Miss Ida, who married Mr. Alex Davidson, Ed. and Doc 
Dorsey. I will never have better friends than the above named. There 
was the Bayne family, T. A. Adams and family, Mrs. Eva William¬ 
son; the Talmadge family, Allen, Frank, Ed and Miss Mary Jane; 
Mrs. Brightwell; Captain Reuben Nickerson and wife; the Galloway 
family; the Wilkersons, Miss Tennie, Miss Callie, Columbus, Manuel, 
and others too numerous to mention—and what happy times these 
families had together. 

A great many of them have gone to the Great Beyond and the 
others will follow. Today some of the names mentioned are the lead¬ 
ing citizens of the city of Athens, doing all they can for the city and 
their country, their families, and serving their God. 

March 20, 1923. 


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Capt. Henry Beusse 


INTERESTING SKETCHES OF THE OLDEST CITIZENS OF 

ATHENS. 

From The Athens Banner, Sunday, July 26th, 1903. 

Capt. Henry Beusse. 


Mr. Henry Beusse was born in Altona, near Hamburg, Germany, 
September 10th, 1827. His father, who was a sea captain, died when 
Capt. Beusse was seven years old, leaving him to be reared by a good 
and pious mother. At the age of five he started to school, where he 
remained until he was fifteen, when he was confirmed in the Lutheran 
church. 

Being very ambitious to be a sailor he went to sea, against his 
mother’s wishes. He stayed at sea until eighteen when he landed at 
New Orleans, Christmas day, 1845, the next year, January 26th, he 
w T ent to Charleston and from there to Athens, where he was engaged in 
merchandise until January 18th, 1852, when he left for California. 
The trip to California lasted seven and one half months, and there 
were forty-five deaths from Panama to California. While in Califor¬ 
nia he was a miner, then a merchant, and raised stock and vegetables. 

In June, 1856, he returned to Athens and married Menecies Lind¬ 
say Evans, November 6th, 1856. In 1858 he organized the Champion 
Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, and was called “Father of the 
Company” and was the president and captain of the company off and 
on until the city adopted the paid department. He always man¬ 
ifested a deep interest in the welfare of the city. 

In 1850 he joined the Odd Fellows and rose step by step to Grand 
Master of the state. He is now a charter member of the Golden Rule 
Lodge No. 211 Knights of Honor. 

During the Civil War he was a member of the Ninth Georgia 
Regiment in Capt. Adams Company and Col. Mell’s Regiment until 
he was detailed by the Government as conductor on the Atlanta and 
West Point Railroad Company. He was in service in North Carolina 
and South Carolina by the Confederate Comissaries until the close 
of the war. He carried the last prisoners that were exchanged from 
Florence, S. C., to Wilmington, N. C., also carried last provisions 
to Camden, S. C., which were sent to General Joseph E. Johnson’s 
army. After having several narrow escapes of being captured, Capt. 
Beusse walked from Florence, S. C., to Athens, as all the bridges had 
been burned. 

In 1866 he was elected Alderman of the City Council and served 


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three years as chairman of the Finance Committee. In 1871, 1872 
and 1881 he served as Mayor and has served as City Assessor for 
about twenty years. He has been engaged in Mercantile and Book¬ 
keeping until now, except the time he was engaged as Right of Way 
Agent for the G. C. & N. R. R. from the Savannah River to Fulton 
County. 

Captain Beusse has been connected with every new enterprise 
started in Athens for many years. He was connected with the first 
Fair Association, the first street car company, the first laundry, was 
a director in the Northeastern R. R. until it passed into the hands of 
the Richmond Terminal Company, and helped organize the first 
building and loan association in the city. 

In 1891 he visited Europe for the first time since leaving there and 
saw his only two brothers and sister, since then both brothers and 
sister have died. 

In 1874 during a revival, Capt. Beusse was converted and joined 
the Presbyterian Church, there being no Lutheran Church in Athens. 
For about twenty years he was Treasurer of the Presbyterian Church 
and has been Deacon for a number of years, which position he still 
holds. 

In 1872 Captain Beusse opened in Athens, the first roller skating 
rink then in Georgia, and also that year formed a partnership with 
Mr. Samuel M. Hunter and did a large general store business in the 
Dupree building at the corner of Broad and Thomas streets. 

In 1877 this partnership was dissolved, Mr. Hunter forming a part¬ 
nership with Mr. Joe Orr and Mr. W. C. Orr, the name of the firm 
being Orr and Hunter, Cotton Factors. 

Captain Beusse continued in the grocery business on Broad street, 
in the building which is now known as the Marks building. 


I. 0. 0. F. 

GRAND LODGE OF GEORGIA 
Office of Grand Secretary. 

Gainesville, Ga., March 22, 1923. 
Hon. James A. Perry, Grand Master, 

Atlanta, Georgia. 

Dear Brother Perry:— 

Complying with your request I have examined the records and 
find that Henry Beusse of Williams Lodge No. 15, Athens, Ga., was 
elected Grand Master at the session of the Grand Lodge held in 
Augusta in 1883. The following session of the Grand Lodge, 1884, 
at which he presided was held in Brunswick. 

Fraternally yours, 

T. H. ROBERTSON, 

Grand Secretary. 


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THE ATHENS DAILY HERALD. 

November 14, 1921. 

Larry Gantt’s Column. 

By T. Larry Gantt. 

Now that a municipal contest is on in Athens, it may be of some 
interest to our readers to recount one of two heated campaigns, that 
occurred in past years, and only remembered by our older citizens. 

When I first located in Athens, the town had less than 5,000 in¬ 
habitants. At that time, J. D. Pittard, an uncle of Jno. T. Pittard, 
of Winterville, was mayor. He was a merchant and one of our sub¬ 
stantial citizens. Owing to bad health, Mr. Pittard declined to offer 
for re-election. Dr. J. A. Hunnicutt and Capt. Henry Beusse were 
the opposing candidates. Dr. Hunnicutt then, as he is today, was 
a staid, quiet, unassuming gentleman and knew nothing about poli¬ 
tics. He was polite and nice to everyone, but of course his intimate 
friends were confined to a limited circle. On the other hand Henry 
Beusse was not only a good mixer, everyone called him Henry, and a 
more universally popular man never lived in Athens. For Capt. 
Beusse to win, was like taking a stick of candy from a baby. In 
truth, Dr. Hunnicutt did not care for the office and was put into the 
race by his friends. 

Athens never had a better mayor than Henry Beusse. He loved 
his town and the people had great confidence in his business sagacity 
and integrity. It was under the Beusse administration that Athens 
built the Northeastern Railway to Lula Junction, and it was his vote 
that carried the line by Harmony Grove instead of Jefferson. The 
city of Commerce owes its growth and bright future to Mayor Beusse, 
and the town should erect a monument to his memory. Henry 
Beusse was a true and loyal friend and the soul of charity and gener¬ 
osity. He was a most kindly and lovable man, and until the day of 
his death my tried and true friend. Peace to his ashes. A good man 
taken from Athens when he passed away. 

The town of Harmony Grove has, within the past ten years changed 
its name to Commerce. L 1 


CAPTAIN HENRY BEUSSE ENTERS INTO REST. 

Death of one of Athens oldest and most honored citizens. 

From The Athens Banner , December 15,1903. 

In the death of Captain Henry Beulsse at his home in this city 
yesterday morning at four o’clock, Athens lost one of her oldest and 
most respected citizens. 

Capt. Beusse had been feeling badly for several days, but his 
family had no idea of the nearness of the end. 

Yesterday morning about four o’clock he arose from his bed and 
started across the room. Mrs. Beusse asked him what he was doing 


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and he said he was going to get a drink of water. Just then he 
caught hold of a chair and gradually sank to the floor. 

His son, Mr. Fred Beusse, who slept in an adjoining room, was 
called and came quickly and lifted his father up on the bed. As his 
head rested upon the pillow he passed away. The summons had come 
suddenly in the form of heart failure. 

The announcement of Capt, Beusse’s death was a great shock to his 
many friends. He was among the oldest landmarks in the city, 
honored and beloved by all the people. 

Capt. Beusse leaves a widow and seven children: Mrs. W. F. 
Dorsey, Mrs. W. P. Briggs, Mrs. Alice Adams, Messrs. J. H. Beusse, 
IT. W. Beusse, C. G. Beusse, and Fred Beusse, all of Athens. 

The funeral will be held this afternoon at three o’clock, at the 
Presbyterian church. The pallbearers will be from the Odd Fel¬ 
lows of this city, and the honorary pallbearers will be the elders and 
deacons of the Presbyterian church. At the grave the remains will 
be interred with the honors of Odd Fellowship. 

Capt. Beusse was the oldest living Past Master of the Odd Fellows 
of Georgia. The burial exercises of the Odd Fellows this afternoon 
will be conducted by Past Grand Master Charles H. Brand. 

All surviving members of the Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company, 
of which Capt. Beusse was the founder will assemble at Pioneer Hall 
Lhis afternoon at 2:30 o’clock for the purpose of attending the 
funeral in a body. 


FUNERAL SERVICES OF MRS. HENRY BEUSSE TO BE HELD 

3:30 P. M. 

November 12 1919. 

The funeral of Mrs. Henry Beusse, who died at her home on Hill 
street, Tuesday evening, will be held this afternoon at the family 
residence at 3:30. Rev. E. L. Hill, pastor of the First Presbyterian 
church, of which Mrs. Beusse was an active member for more than 
seventy years, will conduct the services and in accordance with a 
request of the deceased, they will be private and of short simple 
nature, interment taking place immediately after in the Oconee 
Cemetery. 

Mrs. Beusse was eighty-four years of age, being born in Madison 
County in 1835, moving to Athens in 1843, where she made her home 
until her death. Prior to her marriage, in 1856, to Capt. Henry Beusse, 
she was Miss Menecies Lindsey Evans, being one of the most charming 
and popular young ladies of the early days of the city. She was a 
devoted wife and mother and universally loved as a sincere friend by 
her every acquaintance, so her passing is deeply mourned by the 
entire populace of the city. 

She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. W. F. Dorsey, Mrs. W. P. 
Briggs, and Mrs. Alice Adams, all of Athens; three sons, Mr. Henry 

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W. Beusse, and Mr. J. H. Beusse, of Athens, and Mr. Fred Beusse of 
New Orleans; six grandchildren, Mrs. Jno. R. Northcutt, of Athens; 
Mrs. James R. Gray, Atlanta; Mrs. Jno. Bonner, Mrs. Jno. Henderson, 
and Mr. James Henry Beusse, Gray, Ga.; Mrs. Nevitt Owens, Wiley, 
Ga., a number of great grandchildren and other relatives. 

The following gentlemen, her friends for many years, will, at her 
request be the active pallbearers: Mr. M. G. Michael, Mr. Chas. Scud- 
der, Mr. Hugh Rowe, Mr. E. I. Smith, Sr., Mr. F. M. Hodgson, Mr. 
J H. Dorsey, while the honorary pallbearers will be Maj. John E. 
Talmadge, Sr., Mr. H. H. Linton, Dr. Henry Palmer, Mr. Joe M. 
Hodgson and Mr. Myer Stern. 


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Beusse Family Record 


BEUSSE FAMILY WITH GREAT-GRANDFATHER OF JESSE 
HOYT BEUSSE OF ATHENS, GEORGIA. 

Johann Hinrich Beusse, 

Married, July 1st, 1784, 

Marie Margaretha Karten. 

Children: 

Catharine Margaretha Dorathea Beusse, born April 4th, 1785. 

John Henry Martin Beusse, horn May 14th, 1789. Went to Phila¬ 
delphia, was God-Father to Wilhelmine Gerdts. 

Diedrich Henry Beusse, born September 26th, 1791. Grand¬ 
father of Jesse Hoyt Beusse. 

Christian Ben j amine Beusse, horn January 7th 1795. Was a 
Captain and killed by Pirates. 

Diedrich Henry Beusse, (Captain of Sailing Vessel), born September 
26th, 1791; died January 2nd, 1833. 

Married December 2nd, 1812. 

Anne Christine Catharina Classen, born January 19th, 1795 in Altona ; 
died March 21st, 1862 in Altona. 

Children: 

Johanna Henrietta Margaretha Beusse, born February 5th, 1813; 
died November 14th, 1818. 

John H. Diedrich Beusse, horn August 10th, 1816; died June 
20th, 1889. 

Heinrich Wilhelm Diedrich Beusse, born June 19th, 1818; died 
May 6th, 1901. 

Johanna Henrietta Christophine Beusse, born August 12th, 1821 • 
died April 22nd, 1886. 

Johanna Margaretha Mathilde Beusse, born May 25th, 1823- 
Died February 18th, 1876. 

Wilhelmina Beusse, born March 4th, 1825; died Jan. 10th, 1864. 
Married Henry Gerdts. 

Henrich Beusse, born September 10th, 1827; died Dec. 14th, 1903 
Father of Jesse Iloyt Beusse. 

Fredeiike Wilhelmine Eleonore Beusse, born December 10th 
1831; died September 2nd, 1892. 

Johann Heinrich Ulrich Beusse, bom November 4th 1833- died 
February 22nd, 1900. 


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FAMILY OF ANNE CHRISTINE CATHARINA CLASSEN, 
WIFE OF DIEDRICH HINRICH BEUSSE. 

Johann or Wilhelm Hinrich Classen, horn 1750; died July 17th, 1814. 
Married July 9th, 1789. 

Catharina Maria Hoppner, born Aug. 10th, 1772; died Jan. 11th, 1844. 
Children: 

(1) Unknown. 

(2) Unknown. 

(3) Unknown. 

(4) Anne Christine Catharina Classen, born Jan. 19th, 1795. 

(5) Unknown. 

(6) Unknown. One of these three was Wilhelm Classen. 

(7) Unknown. 

(4) Anne Christine Catharine Classen, born January 19th, 1795; 
died March 21st, 1862. 

Married December 2nd. 1812. 

Diedrich Hinrich Beusse, born September 26th, 1791; died Jan¬ 
uary 2nd, 1833. 

See previous page for their descendents. 

(5( 

(6) One Wilhelm Classen had a wife, whose name is not known and 

they had three daughters: 

(7) 

(a) Christiane Classen. 

(b) Johanna Classen. 

(c) Emilie Classen. 

(a) Christiane Classen 

Married 

Christoph Arnoldi. 

Children: 

Emil Arnoldi, 

Emilie Arnoldi, 

Elizabeth Arnoldi. 

Emil Arnoldi 
Married 

Amanda Muller. 

Children: 1 son, 3 daughters. 

Emilie Arnoldi 
Married 
August Adam. 

Children: 1 son, 2 daughters. 

Elizabeth Arnoldi, not married. 

(b) Johanna Classen 

Married 

-Mortensen. 

Children: 

Anna M. Mortensen, 


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Johannes Mortensen, 

Christian Mortensen. 

Anna M. Mortensen 
Married 

Albert Spangenberg. 

Children: 1 son. 

Johannes Mortensen 
Married 

Amanda Ellerbrock. 

Children: 1 son, 1 daughter. 

Christian Mortensen 
Married 

Wife not known. 

Children: 2 or 3. 

( 5 ) 

(6) After the death of this Wilhelm Classen, his widow was married 

again to Johann Jakob Luders and they had two daughters: 

(7) 

Wilhelmine Luders, 

Elise Luders. 

Wilhelmine Luders 
Married 

- Eiserdorf. 

Elise Luders, not married. 

This Johann Jakob Luders, when he married the widow of Wel- 
helm Classen was a widower and had four sons from his 
first marriage: 

Gustav Luders, 

Christian Luders, 

Ferdinand Luders, 

Ernst Luders. 

Gustav Luders 
Married 

Wife not known. 

Has four children. 

Christian Luders 
Married 

Wife not known. 

No children. 

Ferdinand Luders, died in San Francisco, Cal. 

Ernst Luders, nothing known. 


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Diedrich Heinrich Beusse 


Mrs. Diedrich Heinrich Beusse 



Herman Tiemann, Paul Tiemann, Oskar Tiemann and wife 

Hamburg, Germany 











John Heinrich Diedrich Beusse 


Minna H. Beusse 
Married Richard Arndt (deceased) 
Later married Hausen 



Mr. and Mrs. Wilhelm H. C. Beusse, Ottensen, Germany 















FAMILY OF HEINRICH WILHELM DIEDRICH BEUSSE, 
SON OF DIEDRICH HENRY BEUSSE. 

Heinrich Wilhelm Diedrich Beusse, born June 19th, 1818; died May 
6th, 1901. 

Married 

Johanna Ruther, born 1820; died 1899. 

Children: 

(1) Wilhelm Heinrich Christian Beusse, 

(2) Johann Heinrich Martin Beusse, 

(3) Ernest Heinrich Diedrich Beusse, 

(4) Johann Christoph Rudolf Beusse, 

(5) John Gottlieb Christian Beusse, 

(6) Heinrich Hermann Christian Beusse, 

(7) Minna Margaretha Helene Beusse, 

(8) Mathilde Caroline Bertha Beusse, 

(9) Johann Frederick Ernst Beusse. 

(1) Wilhelm Heinrich Christian Beusse. Born 1845, lives Otten- 

sen and has five children, Herman, Johann, Christian, 
Anne, Wilhelmine. 

(2) Johan Heinrich Martin Beusse. Dead. 

(3) Ernst Heinrich Diedrich Beusse. Dead. 

(4) Johann Christoph Rudolph Beusse. Nothing known. 

(5) John Gottlieb Christian Beusse. Nothing known. 

(6) Heinrich Hermann Christian Beusse. Lives Ottensen, a 

butcher formerly, now a merchant, married and has one 
daughter. 

(7) Minna Margaretha Helene Beusse. Was married to Rich¬ 

ard Arndt (dead), later married Hansen (dead), lives 
now in Hamburg and has the old letter of 1846. 

(8) Mathilde Caroline Bertha Beusse. Dead. 

(9) Johann Frederick Ernst Beusse. Dead. 

THIS INFORMATION FURNISHED BY WILLIAM HENRY 
BEUSSE, OF MADISON COUNTY, GEORGIA. 

John Henry Dedrick Beusse. Born Hamburg, Germany, August 
10th, 1816. Died Madison County, Ga., June 20th, 1889. 
Buried at Athens, Ga, 

Married, 1854. 

Tempie Trammell. Born April 16th, 1826. Died Sept. 17th, 1895. 
Children: 

1. Eleonora Julia Beusse. Born July 17th, 1855. 

2. Charles Louis Beusse. Born June 16th, 1857. 

3. Amy Louise Beusse. Born June 16th, 1859. 

4. William Henry Beusse. Born May 28th, 1861. 

5. Belle Ulrica Beusse. Born November 13th, 1865. 

6. Joseph Lee Beusse. Born November 6th, 1867. 


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7. Oscar Rufus Beusse. Born January 7th, 1869. 

8. Edgar Edward Beusse. Born April, 1871. 

(1) Eleonora Julia Beusse. Born July 17th, 1855. 

Married, February 18th 1872. 

G. A. Halwick Jennings of Owassa, Michigan. Died March 6th, 
1918. 

No children. 

(2) Charles Louis Beusse. Born June 16th, 1857. 

Married 1878. 

Mary Gann. 

Children: 

David Dedrick Beusse. Born April 28th, 1879. 
Ferdinand Beusse. Born July 10th, 1882. 

David Dedrick Beusse. Born April 28th, 1879. 

Married 

Minnie Gaines. Born January 22nd, 1882. 

Children: 

David Dedrick Beusse. Born December 10th, 1905. 
Fred. Beusse. Born July 10th, 1882. 

Married 
Miss Dawson. 

Children: 

Bert Beusse. Bom July 22nd, 1905. 

(3) Amy Louise Beusse, Born June 16th, 1859 

Married Nov. 29th, 1877. 

Died Brunswick, Ga., Feb. 13th, 1887. 
Geo. W. Calvin of Augusta, Ga. 

Children: 

Nellie Calvin, 

Lola Calvin, 

Louis Calvin. 

(4) William Henry Beusse, 

Married 

Hattie Winfrey. 

Children: 

Amy L. Beusse, 

Annie May Beusse, 

Ruby Ella Beusse, 

W. H. Beusse Jr., 

Jesse Hoyt Beusse, 

Lillian Beusse. 

Amy L. Beusse, 

Married 

-Wright, lives Athens, Ga. 

Annie May Beusse, 

Married 

- Dixon, lives Commerce, Ga. 

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Born May 28th, 1861. 
Nov. 4th, 1884. 




Ruby Ella Beusse, 

Married 

- White lives Pocataligo, Madison County, Ga. 

W. H. Beusse, Jr., 

. Married 

Evie Landers, lives Madison County, Ga. 

(5) Belle Ulrica Beusse, Born Nov. 13th, 1865. 

Married 

Harry Christofferson, Lives at Wilmington, N. C. 

a Norwegian. 

Children: 

Two girls one boy. 

(6) Joseph Lee Beusse, 

Married 

Imer Jane Jones. 

(7) Oscar Rufus Beusse, 

Married 
Lillian Glenn. 

Children: 

Four boys, one girl. 

(8) Egan Edward Beusse, 

Married 
Alice Mann. 

Children: 

One boy, killed in Atlanta, Ga. Age, 22. 

One girl, married. Age, 33. 


FAMILY OF JOHANNAH HENRIETTA CHRISTOPHINE 
BEUSSE, DAUGHTER OF DIEDRICH HENRY BEUSSE. 

Johanna Henrietta Christophine Beusse, Born Aug. 12th, 1821. 

Died April 22nd, 1886. 

Was engaged (not married) for seven years to Andreas Heise, 
who went to America, later married to - Blunck, a car¬ 

penter, who died soon after marriage, (had one daughter), 
Catharine Franziska Bernhardine Blunck. Born, 1855. Died 
Nov. 2nd, 1875. She later married Johann Diedrich Brumm, an 
inspector of police, who had seven children with his first wife, 
(three in America). No children born to them. 


Born Nov. 6th, 1867. 
June 10th, 1889. 

Born Jan. 7th, 1869. 

1893. 


Born April, 1871. 
Dec. 22nd, 1890. 


FAMILY OF JOHANNA MARGARETHA MATHILDE BEUSSE, 
DAUGHTER OF DIEDRICH HEINRICH BEUSSE. 


Johanna Margaretha Mathilde Beusse, 
Married 

Johann Heinrich Werckenthin, 


Born May 25th, 1823. 
Died Feb. 18th, 1876. 

Born April 10th, 1828. 
Died June 11th, 1906. 


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Children: 

(1) Heinrich Rudolph Christian Werckenthin, 

Born Oct. 15th, 

(2) Hermann Werckenthin, Born Aug. 14th, 

(3) Adolph Werckenthin, Born May 8th, 

(4) Ulrich Werckenthin, Born Sept. 12th, 

(5) Frederick Werckenthin, Bom Oct. 22, 

(1) Heinrich Rudolph Christian Werckenthin, Born Oct. 15th, 

Married 

Lives as a carpenter in Hamburg, has four children; two 
fallen in The World War, one son lives, one daughter, 


1854. 

1856. 

1859. 

1861. 

1867. 

1854. 

sons 

mar¬ 


ried. 

(2) Hermann Werckenthin, 

f3) Adolph Werckenthin, 

Married. 

(4) Ulrich Werckenthin, 

Married. 

Lives in Hamburg. Has two children. 

(5) Frederick Werckenthin, 

Married. 

Lives in Hamburg. Has two sons. 


Bom Aug. 14th, 1856. 
Died Feh. 12th, 1917. 
Born May 8th, 1859. 
Died June 15th, 1905. 
Born Sept. 12th, 1861. 


Born Oct. 22nd, 1867. 


FAMILY OF WILHELMINA BEUSSE, DAUGHTER OF 
DIEDRICH HEINRICH BEUSSE. 


Wilhelmina Beusse, 


Born March 4th, 1824. Germany. 
Died Jan. 10th, 1864, Charleston, S. C. 


Married 

Henry Gerdts, Bom Feb. 11th, 1812, Bremen, Germany. 

Died Oct. 16th, 1885, Charleston, S. C. 


Children: 

(1) Alice Wilhelmina Gerdts, 

(2) Henry Blum Gerdts, 

(3) Henrietta Gerdts, 

(4) Frederick Beusse Gerdts, 

(5) Serena Catharine Gerdts, 

(6) Rosalie Gerdts, 

(7) Florence Gerdts, 

(1) Alice Wilhelmina Gerdts, 

Married 

to 

John Schnierle Horlbeck. 

Children: 

Irene Horlbeck, 


Born Oct. 28th, 1845. 
Bora April 2nd, 1847. 
Born April 17th, 1851. 
Born May 30th, 1853. 
Born Jan. 24th, 1856. 
Bom April 26th, 1858. 
Born Dec. 16th, 1860. 
Born Oct. 28th, 1845. 
Feb. 11th, 1869. 
Died Jan. 6th, 1911. 


Born May 29th, 1870. 


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Henry Gerdts 
Charleston, S. C. 


William Henry Beusse 
Danielsville, Ga. 



Second Georgia Regiment Camps, Tampa, Fla., 1898 








Mr. and Mrs. Heinrich H. C. Beusse, Ottensen, Germany 



Mr. and Mrs. John G. C. Beusse 







































I 



































Eliabeth Louise Horlbeck, 
Margaret Eliza Horlbeck, 

Alice Wilhelmina Horlbeck, 
Florence Isabel Horlbeck, 
Frederick Henry Horlbeck, 
Irene Horlbeck, 

Married 

Mortimer Venning Haselden. 
Eliabeth Louisa Horlbeck, 
Married 

John Herman Carsten Wulbern, 


Margaret Eliza Horlbeck, 

Married 

William Eugene Jones. 

Children: 

William E. Jones. Died. 
Henrietta Whaly Jones. 
Elizabeth Jones. 

Alice Wilhelmina Horlbeck, 
Married 

Frederick William Wagener. 
Children: 

George Andreas Wagener, 
Alice Wagener, 

Frederick William Wagener, 
Eleanor Wagener. 

Florence Isabel Horlbeck, 

Married 

Charles Morgan Shipway. 
Children: 

John Shipway. Died. 

Helen Wattenhall Shipway 
Charles Morgan Shipway. 

(2) Henry Blum Gerdts, 


Bom Aug. 9th, 1871. 
Born Aug. 9th, 1871. 
Born April 13th, 1873. 
Born Aug. 30th, 1874. 

Born Oct. 8th, 1883. 
Born May 29th, 1870. 
Oct. 28th, 1890. 

Born Aug. 9th, 1871. 

Sept. 28th, 1918. 
Born May 11th, 1868. 

Died Dec. 1st, 1922. 
Born Aug. 9th, 1871. 
Nov. 29th, 1901. 


Died. 

Born April 13th, 
Jan. 18th, 


1873. 

1900. 


Born Aug. 30th, 
Feb. 11th, 


1874. 

1897. 


(3) Henrietta Gerdts, 

(4) Frederick Beusse Gerdts, 

(5) Serena Catharaine Gerdts, 

(6) Rosalie Gerdts, 

(7) Florence Gerdts, 

Married 

David Clarence McCall, 
Lives at Darlington, S. C. 


Born April 3rd, 
Died Aug. 27th, 
Born April 17th, 
Died July 26th, 
Born May 30th, 
Died July 28th, 
Born Jan. 24th, 
Lives 13 Pitts St., Charleston, 
Born April 26th, 
Died June 25th, 
Born Dec. 16th, 
Dec. 11th, 


1847. 

1850. 

1851. 

1852. 

1853. 
1863. 
1856. 
S. C. 

1858. 

1859. 

1860. 
1900. 


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FAMILY OF HENRY BEUSSE, SON OF DIEDRICH HENRICH 

BEUSSE. 

Henry Beusse, Born Sept. 10th 7 1827, Altona, Germany. 

Died Dec. 14th, 1903, Athens, Ga. 
Married Nov. 6th, 1856. 

Menecies Lindsey Evans, Born Aug. 27th 1835, Madison Co., Ga. 

Died Nov. 11th, 1919. 

Children: 

(1) Albinus Evans Beusse, 


(2) Rosa B. Beusse, 

(3) Wilhelmina M. Beusse, 
Twins (4) Henry Id. Beusse, 

(5) Clarissa Catharine Beusse, 
Twins (6) Jesse Hoyt Beusse, 

(7) Alice H. Beusse, 

(8) Annie S. Beusse, 

(9) Henry W. Beusse, 

(10) Carlton G. Beusse, 

(11) Fred M. Beusse, 

(1) Albinus Evans Beusse, 

Married 

Maggie E. Butler. 

Lives at Gray, Ga. 

Children: 

(a) Wilhelmina Beusse, 

(b) James Henry Beusse, 
(a) Wilhelmina Beusse, 

Married 
John Bonner. 

Children: Girl 


Born Athens, Ga., 
Aug. 13th, 1857. 

Born Athens, Ga. 
Jan. 30th, 1860. 

Born Athens, Ga., 
Nov. 14th, 1861. 

Born Athens, Ga., 
Dec. 29th, 1863. 

Born Athens, Ga., 
Dec. 29th, 1863. 

Born Athens, Ga., 
Dec. 18th, 1865. 

Born Athens, Ga., 
Dec. 18th, 1865. 

Born Athens, Ga., 
Nov. 12th, 1867. 

Born Athens, Ga., 
Nov. 24th, 1869. 

Born Athens, Ga., 
Aug. 27th, 1872. 

Born Athens, Ga., 
April 5th, 1877. 

Born Aug. 13th, 1857. 

Dec. 16th, 1879, Blakely, Ga. 

Died Jan. 18th, 1900. 


Born Jan. 13th, 1881. 
Born Dec. 30th, 1883. 
Born Jan. 13th, 1881. 

Jan. 23rd, 1907. 
Born Oct. 8th, 1878. 
Born Dec. 16th, 1907. 
Died Dec. 17th, 1907. 
Wilhelmina Cyllene Bonner, Born Oct. 23rd, 1909. 
Alice Henrietta Bonner, Born June 25th, 1912. 
Margaret Frances Bonner, Born Oct, 21st, 1914. 
John Wyatt Bonner, Jr., Bom Sept. 14th, 1917. 
Mary Ellen Bonner, Born Sept. 17th, 1919. 

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(b) James Henry Beusse, 

Married 

Mary Fletcher Smith, 

Children : James Henry Bensse, 
(b) Second Marriage to 
Birdie Nelson, 

(2) Rosa B. Bensse, 

Married 

Joseph A. Munday. 

Children: 

Lnla Menecies Mnnday, 

Rosa Mnnday, 

Berta Mnnday, 

Joseph A. Mnnday, Jr., 

Lula Menecies Munday, 
Married 

John Austin Henderson, 
Children: 

John Nevitt Henderson, 
William Bruce Henderson, 
Rosa Munday, 

Married 

John Nevitt Owen, 

(3) Wilhelmina M. Beusse, 

(4) Henry H. Beusse, 

(5) Clarissa Catharine Beusse, 

Married 

William F. Dorsey, 

Children: 

Son, 

Ida Marguerite Dorsey, 

Annie B. Dorsey, 

Wm. F. Dorsey, Jr., 

Ida Marguerite Dorsey, 
Married 

James Richard Gray, Jr., 
Children: 

James Richard Gray, III, 

Cathrine Dorsey Gray, 
May Inman Gray, 

James Richard Gray, Jr., 
Annie B. Dorsey, 

Married 

John R. Northcuttt, 

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Born Dec. 30th, 1883. 

June 4th, 1913. 
Born July 21st, 1884. 
Died Dec. 9th, 1918. 
Jr., Born Aug. 1st, 1914. 
March 5th, 1920. 
Born Jan. 27th. 

Born Jan. 30th, 1860. 

March 20t.h, 1877. 
Died Sept. 30th, 1885. 

Born Jan. 5th, 1878. 
Born Sept. 1st, 1881. 
Died in infancy. 
Died in infancy. 
Born Jan. 5th, 1878. 

July 31st, 1909. 
Born Oct. 3rd, 1875. 

Born Oct, 16th, 1910. 
Born May 12th, 1913. 
Born Sept. 1st, 1881. 
June 5th, 1907. 
Born Sept. 19th, 1881. 
Born Nov. 14th, 1861. 
Died Aug. 5th, 1864. 
Born Dec. 29th, 1863. 
Died Oct. 6th, 1864. 
Born Dec. 29th, 1863. 
July 14th, 1886. 
Born Jan. 8th, 1862. 

Born Feb. 27th, 1888. 
Died Feb. 27th, 1888. 
Born Oct. 9th, 1890. 
Born Sept. 30th, 1892. 
Born Aug. 1.5th, 1903. 
Died July 17th, 1904. 
Born Oct. 9th, 1890. 

Sept. 18th, 1912. 
Born Feb. 28th, 1890. 

Born Jan. 12th, 1914. 
Died Feb. 2nd, 1917. 
Born March 15th, 1916. 
Born Dec. 15th, 1917. 
Born June 29th, 1922. 
Born Sept. 30th, 1892. 

Feb. 19th, 1912. 
Born Oct. 8th, 1889. 


Children: 

Frances Dorsey Northcuttt, Born Dec. 1st, 


John R. Northcutt, Jr., 
Ann Floyd Northcutt, 

(6) Jesse Hoyt Beusse, 

Married 

Jessie Middlebrooks, 

Children: 

Jesse Hoyt Beusse, 

Jessie Henrietta Beusse, 
Thomas Clarence Beusse, 
Ruth Middlebrooks Beusse, 

(7) Alice H. Beusse, 

Married 

Clarence 0. Adams, 

(8) Annie S. Beusse, 

Married 

William P. Briggs, 

Children: 

One Son, 

Alice Keene Briggs, 
William Prescott Briggs, 
One Son, 


Henry Peeples Briggs, 

Alice Keene Briggs, 

Married 

Wilkerson Coachman Wardlaw, 
William Prescott Briggs, 
Married 

Ruby Lynne Durrette. 

(9) Henry W. Beusse, 

Married 
Lena Gibson. 

(10) Carlton Gerdts Beusse, 

Married 
Flonnie Collins, 

Children: 

Allie Dorsey Beusse, • 

Rosina Dodgen Beusse, 


Born March 15th, 
Born April 22nd, 

Born Dec. 18th, 
Nov. 15th, 
Born July 24th, 

Born Dec. 16th, 
Died Dec. 16th, 
Born Sept. 8th, 
Born March 31st, 
Born April 14th, 

Born Dec. 18th, 
Dec. 17th, 
Born May 29th, 
Died June 5th, 

Born Nov. 12th, 
April 24th, 
Born May 13th, 


Born Feb. 24th, 
Died Feb. 24th, 
Born Oct. 17th, 
Born Nov. 27th, 
Born April 23rd, 
Died April 23rd, 
Born July 18th, 
Born Oct. 17th, 
Oct. 28th, 
Born Dec. 10th, 
Born Nov. 27th, 
July 19 th, 


Born Nov. 24th, 
Jan. 14th, 

Born Aug. 27th, 
Died Dec. 30th, 
Nov. 28th, 
Born Nov. 17th, 

Born Oct. 29th, 
Born Nov. 2nd, 


Died Aug. 30th, 1905, Columbia, 
Carlton Gerdts Beusse, Born Aug. 13th, 

Died May 24th, 


1912. 

1914. 

1917. 

1865. 

1899. 
1875. 

1900. 
1900. 
1903. 

1907. 
1914. 

1865. 

1890. 

1863. 

1897. 

1867. 

1888. 

1858. 

1889. 

1889. 

1890. 
1893. 
1900. 
1900. 
1914. 
1890. 
1914. 
1879. 
1893. 

1919. 

1869. 

1908. 

1872. 

1912. 

1900. 
1872. 

1901. 
1903. 
S. C. 
1906. 

1920. 


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Mr. and Mrs. Heinrich W. D. Beusse, Ottensen, Germany 












William Wallace Evans 
Marion County, S. C. 


W. P. Briggs 



Thomas Elder Middlebrooks 
In his 83rd year. 
















Henry Marshall Beusse, 
James Milton Beusse, 
(11) Fred M. Beusse, 

Lives in New Orleans. 


Born Nov. 19th, 1908. 
Born Nov. 3rd, 1911. 
Born April 5th, 1877. 


FAMILY OF FREDERIKE WILHELMINE ELEONORE BEUSSE 
DAUGHTER OF DIEDRICH HINRICH BEUSSE. ’ 

Born Dec. 10th, 1831. 
Died Sept. 2nd, 1892. 


Frederike "W ilhelmine Eleonore Beusse, 
Married 

Hermann Tiemann, 

Children: 

(1) Alma Tiemann, 

(2) Helene Tiemann, 

(3) Minna Tiemann, 

(4) Alice Tiemann, 

(5) Hermann Tiemann, 

(1) Alma Tiemann, 


Born Jan. 16th, 1828. 
Died May 12th, 1905. 

Born Oct. 14th, 1859. 
Born June 5th, 1862. 
Born March 1st, 1864. 

Born Dec. 8th, 1866. 
Born June 21st, 1868. 
Born Oct. 14th, 1859. 


Lives in Hamburg as Music Teacher, (Piano) 


(2) Helen Tiemann, 

Married 
Johannes Peter Wiecker, 

Lives in Hamburg, widow, no children. 

(3) Minna Tiemann, 


Never married. 

(4) Alice Tiemann, 

(5) Hermann Tiemann, 

Married 

Martha Schauer, 

Children: 

Paul Tiemann 


Born June 5th, 1862. 

Born May 11th, 1855. 
Died Dec. 20th, 1906. 

Born March 1st, 1864. 
Died Sept. 19th, 1907. 

Born Dec. 8th, 1866. 
Died March 27th, 1884. 
Born June 21st, 1868. 

Born June 25th, 1870. 
Died Aug. 19th, 1913. 

Born April 25th, 1896. 


— "7 j-i.jpj.xx 1, JLUl/U. 

Is engaged, not yet married, to Athilde Lemboke. 
Oskar Tiemann, Born May 19th, 1898. 

Married 

(Ada) Anna Walter. 


FAMILY OF JOHANN HINRICH ULRICH BEUSSE, SON OF 

DIEDRICH HINRICH BEUSSE. 


Johann Hinrich Ulrich Beusse, Born Nov. 4th, 1833. 

Died Feb. 22nd, 1900. 
Sept. 21st, 1864. 


Married 




Amande Johanna Christaine Struck, Born, 1843. 

Children: 

Wilhelm Beusse, Born Nov. 29th, 1865. 

Anna Wilhelmine Eleonore (called Minna) Beusse, 

Born Oct. 16th, 1868. 
Martha Ottilie Caroline Beusse, Born March 5th, 1870. 
Wilhelm Beusse, Born Nov. 29th, 1865. 

Married 

Lives in Hamburg. 

Children: 

Two sons fallen in the World War. 

One son. Lives. 

One daughter. Married. 

Anna Wilhelmine Eleonore Beusse, Born Oct. 16th, 1868. 

Married 
Herman Wild. 

Children: 

One daughter. 

Martha Otillie Caroline Beusse, Born March 5th, 1870. 
Not married. 

Lives with sister, Anna Wilhelmine in Hamburg. 


Life of J CSS0 11 • Bcuscs 


Born on Oconee Street in Athens, Georgia, December 18th, 1865, 
having a twin sister whose name was Alice Henrietta Beusse. 

Started to school at six years of age to Miss Bessie Waddell, 
daughter of Professor Waddell of the State University, located in 
Athens, Ga. Went to school to her for two years. Went to school 
one year to Professor Murray and the next six years to one of the 
ablest teachers ever in Athens, Mr. A. M. Scudder. During vaca¬ 
tion time my father kept me in the store and sometimes sent me 
to the plantation, and once in a while gave me a day off. I lived to 
tell my father that he did the best thing for me that could have 
been done in keeping me busy. Through his efforts there was in¬ 
stilled in me valuable business qualifications. 

At 16 years of age I went to work for my father, as I did not 
want to take a college education. For four years I studied hard at 
night and went to a gymnasium school at night for four }^ears. 

In 1882 I went to work for Col. S. C. Dobbs, who ran a general 
store on Broad Street, Athens, Ga., and stayed with him eight years, 
and from there went to G. H. Hulme Co., in 1890, stayed with these 
people twelve years as a traveling salesman. Started my career as 
a traveling salesman, March 5th, 1884, for S. C. Dobbs, and have 
been a traveling salesman as well as looking after my own business 
doing the traveling for the firms I am engaged in. 

I am a director and stockholder in The Webb-Crawford Co., w ho 
bought out and reorganized the old Webb & Crawford Co., in 1911. 
They deal in wholesale groceries and feed stuff, and do a business 
of about five million per annum. Also President and stockholder 
in Gainesville Roller Mills of Gainesville, Ga. Also President and 
stockhoder of Bason Metals Mining Corporation of Ouray, Utah. 
This corporation is capitalized at four hundred thousand dollars. 
Am also half owmer of the Hodgson Bros. Co., Distributors, of Ath¬ 
ens, Ga. These people are distributors of heavy groceries and feed. 
I am also half owner of Pitner & Beusse, Merchandise Brokers of 
Athens, Ga. Both Hodgson Bros. Co. and Pitner & Beusse w T ere 
organized in 1911. In the year 1919 Pitner & Beusse did a business 
of six and one quarter million dollars, Hodgson Bros. Co. did a 
business of over three million dollars. 

Pitner & Beusse also have a branch office of the brokerage busi¬ 
ness at Macon, Ga. I am also a landowner in Oconee County, Ga., 
and run a large farm and have for the last twenty-five years. 

I served in the State Mililia and have service bars from the State 
of Georgia for 31% years of service, also served as a volunteer and 
was appointed Captain of Company G., 2nd Georgia Regiment of 
Infantry Volunteers during the Spanish-American War. Was en- 


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listed April 28th, 1898, and mustered out of service Nov. 30th, 
1898. My discharge papers showed that my service had been effi¬ 
cient in every respect. While stationed at Tampa, Florida, there 
was a big riot at Yebor City, caused by colored and some white 
soldiers, which was subdued by the 2nd Battalion, Major E. H. 
Almond in command; Capt. A. J. Renkl, of Augusta, Ga., Company 
E.; Capt. J. H. Beusse, of Athens, Ga., Company G.; Capt. W. W. 
Frye, of Augusta, Ca., Company C.; Capt. Walter Perkins, of Rome, 
Ga., Company H., and about four hundred privates. At the end of 
the fray there were about 356 colored and white soldiers locked up, 
and it was reported that there were eleven colored people killed. 
Following this riot the 2nd Georgia Infantry was kept at Yebor City 
on guard for several months, which was as hard service as some who 
went to Cuba saw. I served as Aide-de-Camp on the staff of Hon. 
Hoke Smith as a Lieutenant Colonel during both his terms as Gov¬ 
ernor of Georgia, after this I was put on the retired list of State 
Troops of Georgia as a Lieut. Colonel. 

I have never held a political office for the reason that I never 
wanted one. 

As to religion, I am a Presbyterian, who believes in Jesus Christ, 
Ihe Son of the Father, who was crucified on Calvary. My belief in 
Him is as true as anyone’s, and I try to serve Him in every way I 
know how. I joined the Presbyterian church when I was 19 years 
old, and for the last six years have been a Deacon of The First 
Presbyterian church of Athens, Ga., and for the last four years, 
Secretary and Treasurer of The First Presbyterian Sunday School. 

My favorite pursuits are work and being with my family. Work, 
not only for myself, but for the good of others. 

As to my dominating personal characteristics, I will let some 
other person states these facts and attach to this. 

I was married to Jessie Middlebrooks, November 15th, 1899, at 
Farmington, Ga. Since that time we have resided in my native 
town of Athens, Ga. We have had four children to bless our 
union, three still living, one boy and two girls. Attached you will 
find a list showing names of the children and dates of their birth. 

As to politics, I am a Democrat, but above all, an American 
Citizen and I believe in One God, One Country, and One Flag. 

I belong to the following secret societies: Masonic Lodge, Mt. 
Vernon Lodge No. 22 F. & A. M. I am also a Knight of Pythias, 
also belong to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Also a 
member of the Old Guard of Atlanta, noted for its military record 
and social side of life. Also a member of the U. C. T. Classic City 
Lodge of Athens, Ga. 

March 14th 1923. 

NEW COMMITTEE NAMED. 

The following new democratic executivve committee for the dist¬ 
rict was announced by Chairman Stone: 


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MERCIES UN85EY EVANS 
AT AGE Of 1.9 


HENRY BEUSSE 
AT AGE OF 29 




HENRY BEU5SE 

AT AGE OF 64- 


IN HER S4FHYFAR. 






































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MRS J.H BEUSSE 


cl. H. BEUSSE 


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^ Clarke, J. H. Beusse; Elbert, M. E. Maxwell; Franklin, E. W. 
C°mer; Greene, H. F. Hurt; Hart, Wm. M. Bryan; Madison, Stone¬ 
wall Carmichael; Morgan, E. Roy Lambert; Newton, Robert Fowler; 
Oconee, W. Shannon Elder; Oglethorpe, W. E. Patman; Putnam, 

W. F. Davison; Walton, John T. Robinson; Wilkes, James G. 
Wright. 

Judge Thomas nominated Mr. Tribble and asked that the nomi¬ 
nation be unanimous. Several members of the convention seconded 
the nomination in brief speeches, complimentary and commendatory 
of the congressman. The vote was taken and Mr. Tribble was 
unanimously re-nominated. 

A committee escorted him to the room, notified him of his re- 
nomination and Capt .Beusse introduced him characteristically: 
‘‘Boys, here’s Sam.” 

Mr. Tribble accepted the nomination in a speech of less than 
thirty minutes. He said that he felt unworthy of the great con¬ 
fidence reposed; that he appreciated the trust and asked the dele¬ 
gates to carry back home his deepest gratitude for the continued 
confidence of the people of the district. 

August 16th, 1916, Athens, Ga. 


Sept. 1st, 1922. 

To Whom It May Concern:— 

I take great pleasure in making a statement concerning my warm 
personal friend, Captain J. H. Beusse. I have known him for 
nearly sixteen years, and a part of that time I have known him 
intimately, and I have formed my judgment of him from my close, 
careful and personal observation of him and association with him. 

1. Captain Beusse is striking in personal appearance; tall and 
straight and neat in his carriage. He has the manners and polite¬ 
ness of a Chesterfield; and he is genial and affable and kind in every 
way to the rich and the poor, to the white and the black. I regard 
him as a gentleman of the Old School. 

2. Captain Beusse is a Christian. He is full of zeal and enthusiasm 
in anything that he goes into, and this zeal and enthusiasm has been 
consecrated to the service of God and His Church. He is always 
at Sunday School, where he holds an official position; and is always 
at the Church Service, where he serves as a Deacn and Usher. He 
is thoughtful and kind in all of his relationship to the pastor and 
members of the Church, and has been unceasing in his attentions 
to the interest of the Church. I regard him as one of the sanest 
and most conscientious members of the First Presbyterian Church 
of Athens. 

3. Captain Beusse is a man full of courage and conscience and 
sanity; and is a blessing to this community. 

Signed, E. L. HILL. 

Oct. 18th, 1922. 


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We have heard with the greatest regret that Mr. Beusse intends 
to give up his position as Secretary of the Sunday School. 

We have never had a secretary in the history of the school w T ho 
was so faithful and so efficient. The difficult work of the office 
has been done perfectly, and very much of the success of the 
school has been due to it. We feel that it would be nothing short of 
a calamity for him to press his resignation, and we, therefore beg 
him to withdraw it, and continue to render this important service. 

(Signed) E. L. HILL, Pastor. 

J. A. MORTON, Supt. 

A. P. WINSTON, Asst. Secty. 

Teachers: Julia Rush Walden, Mrs. Eustace M. Stevens, W. D. 
Hooper, Mrs. J. Audley Morton, Mrs. W. H .Bocock, E. Howard 
Scott, Eunice M. Palmer, Mrs. Paul Holliday, Mrs. J. L. Goetchus, 
Mrs. E. L. Hill, Susan Scudder, Nina Scudder, Mrs. Thos. Stanley, 
Dwight Ryther, Caroline S. Walden, Mrs. C. B. Daniels, Olive 
Marion. 

The First Presbyterian Sunday School, Athens, Ga. 

Resignation withdrawn. Still serving as Secretary. 


DOMINANT PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS. 

The undersigned for a number of years have been associated with 
Mr. Jesse Hoyt Beusse, having worked in his office for some seven or 
eight years and have known him intimately for twenty years and 
he is known and loved by everyone for his genial and charming 
personality. 

His face is an open book, revealing the true character of the 
man within. As a worker he is his own hardest master, working 
with a vim to accomplish his task. 

He is sympathetic and never turns a deaf ear to a fellow-man in 
trouble. As an employer he is always fair, always just, and 
always a friend of those who are in his employ. 

As a friend there is none truer than he. His love for his friends 
is only exceeded by his love for his Master and Lord. 

As a father and husband he is loving, sympathetic, jovial and 
it is an enjoyable sight to behold him with his family gathered 
about him, joining in the games of his children, contributing to 
their joy and pleasure, and he is, too, a lovable companion to his 
dear wife. 

L. L. STAPLETON, 

H. B. WILHITE. 

July 27th, 1922. 


CAPT. JESSE HOYT BEUSSE. 

“A good name is better than precious oils.” 

I do not know Capt. J. H. Beusse as Jesse Hoyt Beusse. I have 


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known him from his infancy and called him what his older sister 
called him—“Bud.” There’s magic in the word. It was intended 
for “Little Brother,” but Bud Beusse has been a big brother to 
all who know him. He’s a whole fraternity of Big Brothers in 
himself. 

His ways are a sermon on sincerity, and his deeds are the deeds 
of righteousness. 

I am not related to Bud Beusse. I do not belong to his church; 
I can speak from the “vantage ground of absolute independence.” 

In his youth he displayed a lasting developmentt of character, 
patriotism, and business acumen, that has made him prominent 
among men. In his manhood, whether in time of war or peace, he 
was in the forefront of that activity which stood for the welfare 
of his country and the people he loved and who loved him. 

He has made a success in business, that is small in comparison 
with the success he has made in the development of his city and 
state, and even that is small in comparison with the unselfish life 
he has led in lifting those who were about to fall, comforting those 
whose lives had become almost faithless and hopeless. 

More men like Bud Beusse would turn a barren desert into an 
Eden. Here’s to his health and continued prosperity. May he live 
long and continue to make others happy. 

M. G. MICHAEL. 


PITNER AND BEUSSE 
Merchandise Brokers 
Athens, Georgia 

August 8th, 1922. 

To Whom It May Concern: 

Having known Capt. J. H. Beusse, all my life, being about ten 
years his junior, I feel that I am in position to know his personal 
characteristics, and am free to express myself regarding this noble 
character, as follows. 

1st. He is honest, upright and truthful in all his dealings, always 
ready and willing to meet his fellow-man half way in any kind of 
proposition. 

2nd. He is generous, in fact, the most generous character I have 
ever known, both in his Christian life and his business life. 

3rd. He is not addicted to liquors, wines and women, as he has 
no time for anything except his religious duties, his family and 
his business. 

I could say more, but think I have covered the ground fully in 
a few words. 

Very truly, 

WALTER C. PITNER. 


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THE KING-HODGSON COMPANY 
Wholesale and Retail Grocers. 

Farm Supplies. 

Athens, Ga., Oct. 25th, 1922. 

To Whom It May Concern: 

I take great pleasure in giving expression to my appreciation of 
Jesse Hoyt Beusse, whom I have known all his life. Our parents 
were close and most friendly neighbors, in the good old days, when 
the word “Neighbor” meant something far more than it does now. 

“Bud,” as we always knew him, was born on Oconee Street, 
within a stones throw of my boyhood and young manhood home. 
His father, Captain Henry Beusse, was a sailor and Captain of the 
Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company for a number of years, and was 
known as a “Forty Niner,” having visited California during the 
“Gold Fever” of that day. He came back to Athens and married 
Miss Menecies Evans and spent his married days on Oconee Street. 
“Bud” grew into manhood almost by my side. He was some years 
younger. He did not seek a college education, but as quite a young 
man he went to work. I think he began service with Col. S. C. 
Dobbs, and soon became a traveling salesman and has travelled 
ever since. 

He has been a faithful and dutiful son and has followed in the 
footsteps of his father, who was a Deacon and Treasurer of our 
Presbyterian Church for a number of years. I am more than 
proud to tell of his faithfulness and activity in the church and 
Sunday school. He is a hearty good fellow, agreeable manners, 
rather outspoken at times. He is steadfast and dependable, and a 
good cheerful friend. 

He is a good business man and has attained an enviable success. 

I love to talk to him because he seems so strong and frank, and 
he does not fail to acknowledge his allegiance to Christ. 

He has no patience with deceit in any form. 

“Bud” was mighty lucky in marrying a fine wife and help-mate 
and has three fine children that he is raising and giving them every 
educational advantage and every home attraction. 

I esteem him as a warm friend, and a very useful citizen, both in 
church and state. 

When I do something that is not pleasant and agreeable to him, 
I expect him to come to me and tell me about it. I sincerely wish 
for him the old darkies saying: 

“Possum and taters when you are hungry, 

Good simmon beer when you are dry, 

Money when you are hard up, 

And Heaven when you die.” 

Sincerely, 

J. M. HODGSON. 


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Athens, Ga., March 9th, 1923. 

To Whom It May Concern: 

I have known Captain Jesse H. Beusse personally and intimately 
for more than thirty-five years, we lived very near each other as 
boys, we were connected with the same business concern in this 
city for maany years and I have had most excellent opportunity 
to see him from every angle, as a young man, as a beginner in busi¬ 
ness, as a most unusual son, giving the most extraordinary care and 
attention to his parents throughout their entire life, as a splendid 
husband and father, and have watched his career with much interest 
as he has rapidly climbed the ladder of success until he is now one 
of our best known, universally loved and substantial citizens, he 
having become one of our strongest financial men, at the head of 
one of our leading business concerns, having amassed a good for¬ 
tune, at the same time holding the absolute confidence and esteem 
of every man with whom he has come in contact through all the 
years. 

His record in Athens has been most remarkable in many respects, 
and no man stands higher, holds the absolute confidence of the 
business public with whom he has been associated, and if he has an 
enemy on earth I have never heard of it, for he is so universally 
straightforward, kind, liberal, and magnanimous in all his dealings 
that no one could ever find fault or occasion to criticise any of his 
actions, and every man, woman and child in our city is his friend, 
and deservedly so. 

It means much for a young man to start in his home town where 
he was born and reared, build up such a splendid reputation, at the 
same time amassing a comfortable fortune, and hold the confidence 
and personal good will of his friends and acquaintances reaching 
middle life with friends by the thousands and no enemies, but this 
is exactly what he has done, and it is indeed a source of genuine 
pleasure to me, who have known him so intimately during all of 
these years to bear witness to him as a man, a business man, a 
soldier, a dutiful son, a loving husband, a tender father, and from 
every standpoint a splendid type of a high toned Christian Gentle¬ 
man. 

Among my entire circle of acquaintances I can think of no other 
man of whom I could truthfully make all of these statements and 
I consider myself indeed fortunate in having enjoyed his acquaint¬ 
ance, his friendship and his confidence throughout the many years 
which I have known him. 

Yours very truly, 

MARTIN J. ABNEY. 


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Muster Roll, Co. G, S.-A. War 


MUSTER OUT ROLL OF COMPANY G, (COLOR COMPANY) 
SECOND REGIMENT OF GEORGIA INFANTRY VOLUN¬ 
TEERS, COMMANDED BY COLONEL OSCAR J. BROWN 
CALLED INTO THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES 
BY THE PRESIDENT AT GRIFFIN, GA. THE COMPANY 
WAS ORGANIZED BY CAPTAIN JESSE HOYT BEUSSE 
AT ATHENS, GEORGIA. AND GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, 
DURING THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. 


Rank. 

Jesse II. Beusse, Captain. 

Carl. A. VonderLeith, 1st. Lt. 
William R. Chambers, 2nd Lt. 
Herschel Carithers, 1st, Sgt. 
James W. Robinson, Q. M. Sgt. 
Thos. H. Harris, Sgt. 

Geo. E. Pilgrim, Sgt. 

Chas. N. Hodgson, Sgtt. 

Francis II. N. Houser, Sgt. 
Walton V. Wall, Corp’l. 

James R. Grant, Corp’l. 

Walter E. Jackson, Corp’l. 

Jno. H. Street, Corp’l. 

Thos. A. Witcher, Corp’l. 

Jas. R. Jones, Musician. 

Harley C. Williams, Musician. 
William W. Rawson, Artificer. 
Fred T. Moon, Waggoner. 
Howard C. Ash, Private. 

Robt. F. Autry, Private. 

Curtiss Arnett, Private. 

Paul B. Brantley, Private. 

John C. Briscoe, Private. 

James A. Browning, Private. 
Thomas A. Bennett, Private. 
Henry W. Beusse, Private. 

Fred Beusse, Private. 

Jas. C. Brock, Private. 

M. P. Bancroft, Private. 

M. A. Buchanon, Private. 

Calvin V. Chandler, Private. 

0. G. Chandler, Private. 


Enlisted by 

Capt. S. C. Mills, 12th U. S. In. 

Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 

Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 

Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. Scurvill, 12th, U. S. Inf. 

Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 

Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. Renkl. 


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Roy B. Chaney, Private. 

John Childers, Private. 

Thos. W. Collier, Private. 

Isaac J. B. Dottery, Private. 
Lamar L. Dottery, Private. 

Jno. C. Dennard, Private. 

Articus J. Dickens, Private. 

Thos. S. Dobbs, Private. 

Wm. B. Dobbs, Private. 

James H. Edwards, Private. 
Thomas Eberhardt, Private. 
Stephen Eaves, Private. 

Jas. L. Frierson, Private. 

Hugh C. Fowler, Private. 

William S. Guest. Private. 

Dock P. Harper, Private. 

Jas. B. Henderson, Private. 

Jno. E. Harris, Private. 

Roy H. Ham, Private. 

Dempsey E. Hodges, Private. 
Emory Hancock, Private. 

Jas. T. Hargrove, Jr., Private. 
Jos. J. Hunter, Private. 

Stoy Jackson, Private. 

Swepson H. Jenkins, Private. 
Yerby E. Johnson, Private. 

Jno. H. Joyner, Private. 

Jno. E. Kinney, Private. 

Chas. Kloeckler, Private. 

Merton M. Lawson, Private. 
Clarence W. Muse, Private. 

Ben H. Merck, Private. 

Hardy Montgomery, Private. 

Jno. W. Mappin, Private. 
Alexander Macky, Private. 

Jas. S. McConnell, Private. 
Bertney F. McDonald, Jr., Private. 
Wescomb J. Nichols, Private. 
Thomas R. Nichols, Private. 

Asa J. Nuse, Private. 

Wm. J. Owens, Private. 

Benj. H. Parr, Private. 

Emory S. Patat, Private. 

Oscar E. Riley, Private. 

John Riley, Private. 

Leonard C. Rhodes, Private. 
Dozier J. Smith, Private. 


Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 

Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 

Capt. Kenkl. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. Renkl 
Capjt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 

Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 

Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 

Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 

Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 


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Garnett W. Save, Private. 

Albert Simpson, Private. 

W. Edwin Sorrough, Private. 
Alonzo E. Weatherford, Private. 
Charlie Wood, Private. 

Arnold Worley, Private. 

Geo. D. Webb, Private. 

Abb. P. Wofford, Private. 

Jno. F. Williams, Private. 

Fred H. Wade, Private. 

DISCHARGED 
Name Rank 

•Fas. G. Bright, Private. 

Earnest F. Gross, Private. 

Rufus F. Christy, Private. 

Homer M. Chamblee, Private. 
Abner Bradley, Private. 

Paul Hall, Private. 

William P. Green, Private. 

Chas. A. Carter, Private. 

Wm. C. Turner, Private. 

Robt. Lee Gordon, Private. 


Capt. S. C Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 

Capt. Renkl. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 

Lt. Summers. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. S. C. Mills. 
Capt. Renkl. 

(By Order) 

By Whom At 

Capt. S. C. Mills, Tampa, Fla. 
Capt. S. C. Mills, Tampa, Fla. 
Capt. S. C. Mills, Tampa, Fla. 
Capt. S. C. Mills, Tampa, Fla. 
Capt. S. C. Mills, Tampa, Fla. 
Capt. S. C. Mills, Tampa, Fla. 
Capt. S. C. Mills, Tampa, Fla. 
Capt. S. C. Mills, Huntsville, Ala. 
Capt. S. C. Mills, Atlanta, Ga. 
Capt. S. C. Mills, Atlanta, Ga. 


DISCHARGED (For Disability) 

Nevill C. O’Dell, Private. Capt. S. C. Mills, Huntsville, Ala. 

TRANSFERRED. 


Henry N. Owens, Private. Transferred to Hospital Corps. 

David A. Vason, Private. Transferred to Hospital Corps. 

Theodore E. Barber, Private. Transferred to 2nd Ga. Vol. Inf. Band. 


Marcus M. Gholston, Corp’l. 
Wm. J. Kenvon, Private. 
Arthur J. Marcker, Private. 
Jno. B. Waldrup, Private. 
Sami. J. Daniel, Private. 
Cicero C. Andrews, Private. 
Thos. D. Tolbert, Private. 
Wm. L. Briant, Private. 
Fred Seagraves, Private. 


Transferred to 3rd Ga. Vol. Inf. 
Transferred to 3rd Ga. Vol. Inf. 
Transferred to 3rd Ga. Vol. Inf. 
Transferred to 3rd Ga. Vol. Inf. 
Transferred to 3rd Ga. Vol. Inf. 
Transferred to 3rd Ga. Vol. Inf. 
Transferred to 3rd Ga. Vol. Inf. 
Transferred to 3rd Ga. Vol. Inf. 
Transferred to 3rd Ga. Vol. Inf. 


Tennie W. Crow, Private. Transferred to 3rd U. S. Vol. Engineers. 
Eugene B. Frientker, Pvt. Transferred to 3rd U. S. Vol. Engineers. 

DIED (Of Disease) 

Nathaniel Adams, Private. Died of chloroform anesthesia. 

John P. Wood, Private. Killed by pistol shot at Athens, Ga. 


RECORD OF EVENTS WHICH MAY BE NECESSARY OR USE¬ 
FUL FOR FUTURE REFERENCE AT THE WAR DEPARTMENT. 

In camp at State Camp at Griffin, Ga., from date of muster in 
until May 21, 1898, when under telegraphic orders from the Secre- 


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HOME OF J.H.BEU5SE 634 PRINCE AVE. ATHENS C.A. 


W. F. DORSEY 




MRS. W. F. DORSEY if 

Nee CtAftiSSA Butsse 


X 


ALBIMUS EVANS BEUSSE 


Igfl 

iJSSm 
' H * ’* 


ill 


JH 

















Mrs. W. P. Briggs 
Nee Annie S. Beusse 


Mrs. J. A. Munday 
Nee Rosa B. Beusse 



Mrs. Clarence O. Adams 

C. O. Adams Nee Alice Henrietta Beusse 

Athens, Georgia 










tary of War, broke camp and proceeded to Tampa ,Fla., arriving 
there on May 22nd, 1898. On June 6, 1898, the Company, together 
with Companies C. E. and H., 2nd Ga. Yol. Inf., under command 
of Maj. Almond, per orders from Headquarters 2nd Division, 4th 
Army Corps, marched to Ybor City, Fla., a distance of 2 miles, to 
quell a riot, remained about twelve hours and order having been 
restored, marched back to camp. 

In camp at Palmetto Beach, near Tampa, Fla., from May 22nd, 
1898, until July 22nd, 1898, when under orders from the War De¬ 
partment, broke camp and marched to Camp Rogers, near Tampa, 
Fla., arriving there 6:30 P. M. same date. Remained at Camp 
Rogers until 8:30 A. M. July 24th, 1898, when we broke camp and 
marched to Tampa Heights, near Tampa, Fla., distance V/ 2 miles, 
arriving there same morning, remained in camp there until 5:30 
o’clock P. M., August 18th, 1898, when we broke camp and marched 
to F. C. & P. Railway depot at Ybor City, Fla., distance 2 y 2 miles. 
Departed at 4:20 o’clock P. M., August 19th, 1898, arrived Hunts¬ 
ville, Ala., August 20, 1898, 11 P. M. Camped at Camp Wheeler 
near Huntsville, Ala., August 21st, 1898. Remained in camp there 
until September 21, 1898, when under orders from the War De¬ 
partment broke camp and departed on the Southern Railway for 
Atlanta—distance 233 miles—arriving in Atlanta, Ga., Sept. *22nd, 
1898 and marched to Piedmont Park near Atlanta. Ga.—distance 
marched, 3 miles, and camped. The Company was on furlough 
from Oct. 5th, 1898 to Nov. 4th, 1898. 

Pen. G. 0. No. 130 A. G. O. and mustered out Nov. 30th, 1898. 


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Sketches of Members of Families 


DORSEY. 

William F. Drsey was born in Hall County, Ga., January 8th, 
1862, and moved to Athens, Ga., July 24th, 1878. 

He went into the grocery business with his uncle, E. H. Dorsey, 
under the firm name of E. H. & W. F. Dorsey. Their store, in 
1882 to 1884, was located in the triangular block at the intersection 
of Oconee and Broad streets. They did a fine business. In January, 
1884, they dissolved the grocery business and William F. Dorsey 
went into the furniture business under the name of Edge & Dorsey, 
and he is still engaged in the furniture business under the name of 
Dorsey Furniture Company, one of the largest furniture houses in 
the south. 

It has been my pleasure to know him since his arrival in Athens 
in 1878. We have been close friends. He married my sister, 
Clarissa Catherine Beusse, July 14, 1886. He is one of the best 
husbands and most indulgent fathers I have ever known, and he has 
a happy family. 

He has the following record since coming to Athens to make 
his home: 

He served as Captain of Hope Volunteer Fire Company. 

He served as Captain of Pioneer Reel Company No. 5. 

He served as Chief of the Volunteer Fire Department. 

He served as Chairman of the Clarke County Democratic Execu¬ 
tive Committee. 

He served as Alderman of the City of Athens. 

He served as Mayor Pro-Tern. 

He served as Mayor of Athens three terms. 

He is a Director of the Athens Mattress Co. 

He was President of The Athens Daily New r s during its life. 

He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Athens Gas 
Light & Fuel Co. 

He was President of the Chamber of Commerce. 

He was President of the Kiwanis Club. 

He was Worshipful Master of Mt. Vernon Lodge No. 22 F. & A. 
M. for 11 years. 

He was Commander of the Godfrey DeBoulion Commandery. 

He was District Deputy of the Eighth Masonic District. 

He has served as President of the Board of Directors of the 
Masonic Temple Association. 

He is a good citizen and believes in God and has a Christian heart 
for his fellowman. 

March 20th, 1923. 


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JOHN R. NORTHCUTT’S MILITARY RECORD. 

Enlisted First Officers Training Camp, Ft. McPherson, Ga., May 
Uth, 1917. 

Commissioned Captain of Infantry, Augustt 14th, 1917. 

Stationed at Camp Gordon, Georgia, until May 11th, 1918. 

Stationed Camp Mills, Long Island, May 14th, until May 18th, 
1918. Sailed on “Louisville” May 19th from Hoboken, N. J. Ar¬ 
rived France June 3rd, 1918. 

Served with 307th Ammunition Train of 82nd Division at Toul, 
Marbache, St. Mihiel and Meuse Argon battles. 

Arrived Brooklyn, N. Y., May 12th, 1919. Discharged at Camp 
Gordon, Ga., June 12th, 1919. 


MIDDLEBROOKS. 

Thomas Elder Middlebrooks, who is now living, and is 83 years 
of age, but who looks like a man of 60, was a Confederate soldier 
and lost his leg in the battle of Griswoldvville, Ga., near Macon, Ga., 
November 22nd, 1864, when Sherman was marching through Geor¬ 
gia, in one of the last battles of the Confederacy. 

He has been successful as a business man and is a big land owner 
and one of the best men in Georgia. 

His wife, who was LaNette Hillsman, is still living and is a 
devoted wife and mother. They have the following children, all 
living: 

Marilu, who married Claude H. Cox. 

Flora, who married Dr. R. Y. Harris, of Savannah. 

Jessie, who married J. H. Beusse. 

Guy, who married Claire Stovall. 

Dr. Chester O., who is not married. 

Ruth, who married Andrew Hogue, and is living in West Virginia. 

Tom, who married Winfield Nisbet, a lawyer of Macon, Ga. 


GREAT GRANDFATHER OF MRS. JESSE HOYT BEUSSE. 

Micajah Hillsman 
Married 
Nancy Clarke. 

GRANDFATHER. 

Bennett Rogers Hillsman. Born June 1, 1812. 

Married 

Lucindy Oliver. Born April 13, 1818. 

Her first husband was Allen Lowry, and they left one child, Sarah 
Lowry. She then married Bennett Rogers Hillsman and had the 
following children: Mary, Fannie, William, Augustus, Micajah, 
LaNette, Margaret, Luda and Susie. 

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GREAT GRANDFATHER ON HER MOTHER’S SIDE. 
Frank Oliver 
Married 
Mary Owen. 


RAYMOND VICTOR HARRIS. 

Born at Darien, McIntosh County, Georgia, October 6th, 1880. 

Moved to Savannah with my parents in 1883, where I still reside 
at 19 Gordon St., E., owning the premises. 

Educated in the public schools of Savannah, going through the 
grammar and high schools. 

Attended school at Lawrenceville, N. J., being a member of the 
class of 1899. 

Studied medicine at the University of Maryland, in Baltimore, 
being a member of the class of 1903. 

Remained in the Hospitals of Savannah for four years as an 
interne. 

Started the practice of medicine in Savannah in 1907. 

I hold membership in the following organizations: Georgia Medi¬ 
cal Society, First District Medical Society of Georgia, Medical So¬ 
ciety of the State of Georgia, American Medical Association, Ameri¬ 
can Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons, Rotary Club 
of Savannah, American Legion, Savannah Golf Club. 

Visiting Gynecologist to St. Joseph’s Hospital at Savannah. 

Served in the World War from 1918 to June 1919, in the Medical 
Corps, with the rank of Captain, being Assistant Surgeon at Em¬ 
barkation Hospital, at Camp Stuart, Va. 

Chief Surgeon of General Hospital No. 22, at Richmond, Va. 

Chief Surgeon of General Hospital No. 43, at Hampton, Va. 

In January 1910, married Flora Middlebrooks, of Athens, Ga. 
We have two children, Flora Middlebrooks Harris, born September 
18th, 1913, and Mary Louise Harris, born December 23rd, 1915. 

Member Masonic Lodge No. 231, Savannah, Ga., also a Shriner. 
Member Ancient Landmarks, 32nd Scottish-Rite Mason. 

NOTE: Dr. Harris is a brother-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. 
Beusse. 


NISBET. 

Winfield Robinson Nisbet, born April 19th, 1896, at Milledgeville, 
Ga., Baldwin County. 

Tom Middlebrooks Nisbet, born December 2nd, 1895, in Oconee 
County, Ga. Married Oct. 23rd, 1920. 

Winfield R. Nisbet, Jr., born May 4th, 1922. 

Tom Middlebrooks Nisbet, (girl), born May 4th, 1922, in Athens, 
Ga., Clarke County. 

Winfield R. Nisbet is a prominent lawyer in Macon, Ga., where he 
resides. 


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Carlton G. Beusse 


Henry W. Beusse 
Athens, Ga. 



Fred Munday Beusse Thomas Clarence Beusse 

New Orleans, La. Athens, Ga. 









Oconee Cemetery, Athens, Georgia 






MIDDLEBROOKS FAMILY. 

Great Grand Father. 

(79) John Middlebrooks, Jr., of Brickstone P. 0., Ga., son of John 

Middlebrooks and -Sims(?). Born Sept. 20th, 1755, 

Caswell County, N. C. Married (1) Mary Ware. Mar¬ 
ried (2) Milly Sutton. John, Jr., died in Newton County, 
Ga., Dec. 30th, 1830. John, Jr., served in the Continental 
Army from North Carolina during the Revolutionary War 
iu Lieut. Col. Lytle’s Regiment of Caswell County Troops 
and in Capt. Robt. Moore’s Co. 

CHILDREN BY FIRST MARRIAGE. 

(179) Zere Middlebrooks. Born July 4, 1782. 

Died April 16th, 1869. 

(180) Anderson Crawford Middlebrooks. Born Jan. 1st, 1784. 

Died March 16th, 1871. 
(181. David. Born 1786. Died 1858. 

CHILDREN BY SECOND MARRIAGE. 

(182) Isaac. 

John. 

(183) Abigail Caroline. Born May 9th, 1795. 

Died Sept. 3rd, 1835. 

Grandfather. 

(180) Anderson Crawford Middlebrooks, of Newton County, Geor¬ 
gia, son of John Middlebrooks and Mary Ware. Born in 
Rockingham County, N. C., January 1st, 1784. Married 

(1) Dorenda Jackson. She died Oct. 6th, 1815. Married 

(2) Mary Barton. She died Feb. 27th, 1833. Married 

(3) Mary Thrasher. She died Sept. 22nd, 1871. Anderson 
C. Middlebrooks died in Newton County, Georgia, March 
16th, 1871. 


CHILD BY FIRST MARRIAGE. 

Lordisca Middlebrooks. Bom Feb. 17th, 1814. 

Died Aug. 8th, 1815. 

No children by second marriage. 


CHILDREN BY THIRD MARRIAGE. 


-John Anderson. 

357 James Lyon. 

358 Zarah Barton. 

359 Thomas Elder. 

359 A. William David. 

Died Sept. 


Born Aug. 22nd, 1834. 

Died July 4th, 1843. 
Born Feb. 14th, 1836. 
Died May, 1908. 
Born Oct. 9th, 1837. 
Born Nov. 29th, 1839. 
Born July 7th, 1844. 


12th, 1862, (3rd Ga. Regt, C. S. A. 

Died in Service). 


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Father. 

(359) Thomas Elder Middlebrooks of Farmington, Ga., son of An¬ 
derson Crawford Middlebrooks and Mary Thrasher. Born 
in Newton County, Georgia, Nov. 29th, 1839. Married La- 
Nette Hillsman, Dec. 10th, 1871. She was born May 9th, 
1852. Thos. E. Middlebrooks was a member of the Third 
Georgia Regiment, also Lieutenant Ga. State Troops, Civil 
War. Severely wounded at the battle of Griswoldville, 
Ga., Nov. 22nd, 1864. 

CHILDREN. 


600 Mary Lou Middlebrooks. 

601 William Guy. 

602 Jesse. 

Flora. 

Chester. 

Ruth. 

Thom. 


Born Sept. 22nd, 1872. 
Born March 16th, 1874. 
Born July 24th, 1875. 

Born July 9th, 1877. 
Born April 3rd, 1883. 

March 29th, 1889. 
Born Dec. 2nd, 1895. 


For further information concerning the Middlebrooks family, see 
“Register of the Middlebrooks family, descendents of Joseph Mid¬ 
dlebrooks of Fairfield, Conn.” By Louis F. Middlebrooks, member 
Conn. Historical Society, Hartford, Conn. 

This is the Father, Grandfather and Great Grandfather of Jessie 
Middlebrooks, who is now Mrs. Jesse Hoyt Beusse. 


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Letter to Natl. Cyclopedia of American 

Biography 


Feb. 16th, 1923. 

The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, 

70-5th Avenue, 

New York, N. Y. 

ATTENTION MR. GEO. DERBY, EDITOR. 

Dear Sir: 

I am enclosing you the following facts which you can read to 
make your sketch from. 

I would like to make the following comments with regard to my 
father's family and my mother's family. 

I am enclosing you a family record, the best I can get at this time 
of the Beusse family, beginning with my great grandfather who 
was Johann Hinrich Beusse, born in Altoona, Germany. In that day 
and time Altoona was a free port. He was in the shipping business. 
The name of his children are as stated. 

Two of his sons were Captains of sailing vessels, one of them was, 
my grandfather, Dedreich Henreich Beusse, who was born Sept. 
26th, 1791, and died January 2nd, 1833 from exposure. Another 
uncle, John Henry Martin Beusse went early to Philadelphia, Penn¬ 
sylvania, and made quite a success and reputation as a business 
man. Christian Benjamine Beusse was born January 7th, 1795, and 
was Captain of a sailing vessel. His vessel and himself were cap¬ 
tured by pirates and he was made to “Walk the Plank.” 

My uncle, Johann Hinrich Diedrich Beusse was a sailor and mate 
of his vessel when he came to America to locate. He had a sister 
living in Charleston, S. C., by the name of Wilhelmina Beusse, who 
married Henry Gerdts. 

My father, Hinrich, or Henry Beusse, was born Sept. 10th, 1827. 
He was also a sailor, and when he landed in New Orleans, La., on 
Christmas Eve night in 1845, he went from there to Charleston, S. 
C., where his brother and sister were, and in January 1846, he and 
my uncle came to Athens, Ga., and located, going into business to¬ 
gether. They remained partners in business for a number of years, 
until my father went to California in the latter part of 1849. 

In 1856 my father came back to Athens and met my mother, who 
was Menecies Lindsey Evans, and they were married that year, 
1856. 

Thomas Evans served in Hick’s Regiment at the Siege of Charles¬ 
ton. William, Joshua, John, George, Ezer, Enoch, Burrell and 
Benjamin Evans were at the Siege of Charleston also, as is shown by 
the records. 


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My great grandfather, Thomas Evans, Jr., had two sons, Thomas 
and David Evans. 

These two located at Paoli, Ga., in Madison County, and together 
with kinsmen and friends organized and built New Hope Presby¬ 
terian Church, which church is still in existence. My great uncle, 
David Evans, was a Deacon of this church for forty years. He 
was also a Justice of the Peace and a large land owner. He could 
fix a watch or a clock and was one of the best blacksmiths in this 
country. He was most pious and was considered one of the best 
men in this country. Also Justice Peace. 

My grandfather, Thomas Evans, was also a member of this 
church. Later on, he moved from Madison County, C4a., to Athens, 
Ga., Clarke County, in the year 1843. 

This is a full outline of the Beusse and Evans families. 

I can say without egotism, and with much pride, that the Beusses 
and Evanses descended from people, as far back as we know, who 
believed in the Holy Bible and its teachings, and have just as good 
blood in their veins as anybody in America. 

My older brother, Albinus Evans Beusse, graduated at the Uni¬ 
versity of Georgia, located at Athens, Ga., and after graduation 
went into business with my father, as a cotton buyer and a general 
all round man. Back in the 80’s he was appointed to a position in 
the Treasury Department at Washington, D. C., and served contin¬ 
uously for 23 years, until the time of his death. I am also sending 
you a list of myself and my brother, Henry Washburn Beusse, and 
Avhat we are now doing. 

I have one other brother, Fred Munday Beusse, who is living in 
New Orleans, La., and serving as a bookkeeper. 

I think from the facts that I am sending you, you will have no 
trouble getting what you will want. 

Referring to the first part of this letter, the Germans pronounce 
Johann as John and Hinrich as Henry. In this country we spell 
them as plain John and plain Henry. 


Feb. 17th, 1923. 

The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, 

70-5th Avenue, 

New York, N. Y. 

ATTENTION MR. GEO. DERBY, EDITOR, 

Dear Sir: 

Referring to the 14th paragraph on page 3 of my letter to you of 
yesterday, this paragraph should read as follows: 

Thomas Evans served in Ilick’s Regiment at the Siege of Charles¬ 
ton, during the Revolutionary War. The Siege of Charleston was 
in the year 1780. 

William, Joshua, John, George, Ezer, Enoch, Burrell and Bejamin 
Evans were at the Siege of Charleston also, as is shown by the 
records. 

Yours very truly, 

J. H. BEUSSE. 


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Facts About Wilkes County 


Furnished by Boyce Ficklin, Senior. 

Historically, educationally and ecclesiastically speaking, Wilkes 
Conuty, easily lays claim to being the pioneer county for such in 
Georgia and has the records to back up such claims. 

Comparatively few people in the state have any conception of 
what comprised Georgia from 1733, when Oglethorpe put his foot 
on Yamacraw Bluff, to the Revolutionary War of 1775—a period of 
some forty odd years. 

It was only along this strip extending along the seacoast and 
northward up the Savannah River, to Little River, the present 
boundary between AYilkes, Columbia, Warren and McDuffie counties 
—this was the states boundary as late as 1763. In 1773 the original 
Wilkes County was ceded by the Cherokee Indians. This strip 
commenced at Little River and extended up the Savannah at or 
near where the Southern Railway crosses the Savannah in Stephens 
County, thence southward to Cherokee Corner in Oglethorpe County. 
Here it deflected and ran to a point on the Oconee River called 
Buck’s Ford (Wherever that was), then southeastwards to the 
Ogeechee River, which was the Southern boundary of Wilkes. Nine 
counties have been cut off from the original Wilkes: Lincoln, El¬ 
bert, Hart, Franklin, Madison, Oglethorpe, Greene, Taliaferro and 
Warren—leaving the heart of Wilkes an area of 450 square miles. 
When the population of Georgia reached 75,000 over 38,000 resided 
in Wilkes. 

In 1770 Wesley sent Francis Asbury to America to look after 
Methodism in America. Asbury never liked to be called Bishop. 
He says he was an overseer. Previous to his coming to Georgia 
he had travelled over parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 
Delaware, New Jersey, North and South Carolina and Maryland— 
the latter state would not permit him to preach because he would 
not take a certain oath to the state before commencing to preach, 
so he vacated Maryland for the time being, but in later years he 
was welcomed and permitted to attend to his work. 

He crossed the Savannah, April 1st, 1788, at the fork of Broad 
River, which now separates Wilkes from Elbert county. On April 
9th, he says he held our first conference in Georgia, “There were six 
preachers and four probationers present.” Asi South Carolina was 
then in the Georgia conference, it is reasonable to suppose that 
some of the preachers and probationers, who formed the conference 
of 10 members, were from South Carolina and came over to help 
“The Overseer” out, yet he mentioned no names. The conference 
was held in Wm. Tates dwelling, some four or five miles from the 
fork of the two rivers. 


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The dwelling is still standing, the interior as sound as it w r as the 
day the “Overseer 7 ’ entered it, 133 years ago. Someone has taken 
a picture of it recently and sent a photograph of it to each preacher 
in the two Georgia conferences. The Methodists of later date have 
easily drifted away from a good many of the old landmarks and 
usages of former days, for instance, they do not relish the word 
“Probationer/’ so use the words “On trial.” Guess it sounds more 
aesthetic. 

Immediately after the first conference, Asbury re-crossed the 
Savannah, into Carolina and then headed back to the north again, 
only to return next year. This he did for 16 or 18 consecutive 
years. Two years after his first conference at Tate, Elbert County 
was cut off from Wilkes 1790. In 1789 the “Overseer” came to 
Georgia entering it this time at Augusta, came on up on the narrow 
strip then known as Georgia, stopping one day at Scotts in what 
is now Columbia County, formerly a part of Richmond County, 
which under the Crown was known as Parish of St. Paul’s. Next 
day he came to Thomas Grant’s in Wilkes where he held Annual 
Conference in the first Methodist Church in Georgia, erected by 
Daniel Grant and Thomas Grant, his son, then back to Carolina and 
northward he rode his grey steed. 

The site of the first church has been marked with a monolith of 
Elbert blue granite, weighing over three tons, by some one, to fix 
for all time the location. It sits on a concrete base, has a corner¬ 
stone in the center and under the stone contains a copy of the 
Wesleyan Christian Advocate, Nashville Advocate and a copy of 
each North and South Georgia Conferences of 1916. It will be 
standing when Gabriel blows his cornet. On the front is the fol¬ 
lowing : 

Grants Meeting House—1787 
First Methodist Church in Georgia. 

Here Bishop Asbury preached often and held two Conferences. 

Erected in 1917. 

A gift from the Methodists of Wilkes and their friends. 

The inscription is indented into the stone so that it cannot be 
chipped off. 

He held during the 18 years he visited Georgia, other conferences 
at Washington, Augusta and other places. During his later visits 
Georgia began to expand northward and westward and in 1804 
extended to the Ocmulgee River, and the Bishop travelled West as 
far as Hancock and Putnam Counties, at that date the frontiers of 
Georgia. It is interesting to read his work and travels, and at the 
same time painful—a frail man physically, he rode horseback 
through unbroken forests, fording creeks and rivers, braving snow¬ 
storms, going all day without a dry thread on him preaching under 
trees, and in cold churches (and as he says to cold congregations), 
and often riding all day and into the night with no place in sight 

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t o obtain a meal or assuage a headache, or arrest a hacking cough— 
both of which he was heir to and suffered from them almost daily. 
He was fearfully handicapped by reason of his being an English¬ 
man. It was during the Revolutionary War, and an Englishman in 
America was looked upon with distrust if not with hate. He 
refers to this condition of affairs several times. 

He says his salary was $80.00 per year, and four or five thousand 
miles of horseback riding, fording creeks and swimming rivers, 
braving snowstorms in a broken saddle, with a stumbling steed, 
was his almost daily occupation. During his last years in Georgia 
he says he and Bishop McKendree (I think) chipped in and pur¬ 
chased a $30.00 chaise in which they made their rounds. He says 
it was not much of a chariot, but supposed it fit his pocketbook 
alright. 

I have often wondered what Asbury and his co-bishop would 
have thought had they met a modern elder dashing by in his 
$2,000.00 Buick, on his way to his appointments. Expect both would 
have fallen backward out of their $30.00 chaise and doubtless been 
run over by the Buick, Eh ? Hundreds of other incidents, some sad 
and others amusing, as he roamed from state to state could be 
mentioned, but they would take up too much of your space so I 
desist for fear of landing in the waste basket. 

Daniel Marshall established the first Baptist Church in Georgia, 
on the banks of Kiokee Creek, under an oak tree. (I suppose be¬ 
cause there was much water there). It was in now Columbia 
County, formerly Richmond County, and under the Crown was 
known as St. Paul’s Parish. Parishes went out of existence just 
after the Revolutionary War, in Georgia at least. 

The Baptists antedated the Methodists in just four years before 
Grants Meeting House was erected in Wilkes. 

Daniel Marshall planted, but it was Silas Mercer and his Jesse 
who were the Apolos who watered the plant and brought it into full 
fruition, so that now our Baptist friends cover Georgia like the 
waters cover the great deep. 

John Wesley and his brother, the sweet singer preached and sang 
to the Indians, but left the field uncultivated and sailed back to 
England. It was Asbury with his lieutenant, Hope Hull, with 
David Merriweather and Humphries who were the men behind the 
gun in Georgia Methodism. Georgia has much to thank the two 
Daniels for, Marshall and Grant—for their start. First Catholic 
Church in Georgia was in Wilkes, now Taliaferro County; first 
Presbyterian preacher was ordained under a poplar tree within the 
limits of Washington, Ga., 1790. 

The house in which Eli Whitney worked on his gm is still stand¬ 
ing in Wilkes. The first cotton factory in Georgia was that of 
Bolton’s in Wilkes. First Christian Science School in Georgia 
stands today in Wilkes. On the banks of Kettle Creek in Wilkes, 

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where on Valentines day, 1777, Gen. Elijah Clarke met and an¬ 
nihilated the British forces under Col. Boyd, who had burned Sa¬ 
vannah, sacked Augusta and was marching into the northern part 
of Georgia (then Wilkes) to finish his job, when Clarke fell afoul 
of the British forces and British ascendency in Georgia stopped 
right there, about daylight, February 14th, 1777. The zeal of the 
Wilkes County folks was so great that it obtained for them and 
Wilkes a name “The Hornets Nest of The Revolution,’’ a name that 
they are still proud of. 

Polly Barclay, a white woman was the first white woman hung 
in Georgia. She murdered her husband. They kill husbands and 
wives and others these days in Georgia, yet hanging seems a lost 
art in Georgia. 

Mercer University started in Wilkes County from the fortune of 
a Hebrew, and now we have a great Christian institution of learn¬ 
ing in Georgia, the nucleus of which was supplied by a Jew. “The 
Lord Works In a Mysterious Way His Wonders to Perform.” 

Wilkes has in part, at least done her share in church, state and 
education, to say nothing of war 

Wilkes County, Georgia, was organized 1777. 

Elbert County, Georgia, was organized Dec. 10th, 1790, and was 
cut off of Wilkes County. 

Oglethorpe County, Georgia, was organized Dec. 19th, 1793. 

Madison County, Georgia, was organized Dec. 11th, 1811, and 
made from Oglethorpe, Jackson, Clarke, Franklin and Elbert 
Counties. 

Clarke County, Georgia, was organized Dec. 5th ,1801, and made 
from Jackson County, Georgia. 

Oconee County, Georgia, was cut off from Clarke County Feb. 
25th, 1875. 


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Life of R. H. Bullock 


TAKEN FROM MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA, VOL. 2. 

R. H. Bullock, farmer, Danielsville, Madison County, Georgia, 
was born in Oglethorpe County in 1810, and is now one of the oldest 
residents of this county. This branch of the family decended from 
an Englishman and one of the early settlers of Virginia. Nathame 
Bullock, the grandfather of the subject of this memoir, was born 
m North Carolina, and marrying Mary Hawkins, moved to Georgia 
during the time of the Revolutionary War. A son, Hawkins Bul¬ 
lock, entered the Patriot ranks at the age of sixteen years under 
Capt. Twitty and in General Greene’s command. He was born m 
North Carolina, and after the War of Independence, located m 
Wilkes County, and subsequently moved to Madison County 
where he died. He married Frances R. Gordon, a daughter 
of Capt. Alexander Gordon. Mr. Gordon was a Revoiu- 
tionary soldier and attained the rank of Captain, moved to Wilkes 
County soon after the war and later to Oglethorpe County, where he 
died Mr. R. H. Bullock was a farmer from youth, and m 18db was 
married to Mary H. Griffith, a native and life-long resident of 
Madison County. They have three children, Sarah F ->. Ja ™ e ®. 
and Wyatt H. The mother of the children was born m Madison 
County in 1817, and died 1849. In 1865 he married Lucinda Thomp¬ 
son daughter of Nathaniel Gholston, an early settler of Madison 
County, and a native of North Carolina. To this union have been 
born the following living children: Susan, Geo. A., Mary ., u 
S„ Richard H., Bonnie G., and Nathanieh The mother was born in 
Madison County in 1837. Mr. and Mrs. Bullock are members of the 
Presbyterian Church. Mr. Bullock has been active m P 01 /* 10 ® d ™‘ 
ing his long life and has frequently been asked to hold offic a 
positions He was elected Clerk of The Inferior Court, then a mem¬ 
ber of the court and then served as Ordinary for twenty years. He 
was a member of the Legislature when the capital was at Milledge- 
ville for four terms, and for four years represented his district in 
the State Senate in Atlanta. Mr. Bullock is familiar y ” 0 '™ ‘ 

Major, this title being bestowed on him in youth when he \ 
Major in the State Militia and fighting King George s men He 
owns a large farm near Danielsville and a big mill on the Sout 
Broad River and is more than comfortably fixed m this world s 
S Though way up in years, Mr. Bullock still enjoys good 
health and possesses a powerful intellect which is still active as 


ever. 


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Kinsmen 


Dabney Gholston 
Married 
Mary Bullock. 

Their children were: Nathaniel Gholston, Leonard Gholston, John 
Gholston, James Gholston, Richard Gholston, Billy Gholston, 
Harlowe Gholston,* Eliabeth Gholston. 

Willis Strickland 
Married 

Harlowe Gholston.* 

Their children were: Mary Strickland, Salency Strickland, Harriet 
Strickland, Huldah Strickland, Sarah Strickland, Elizabeth Strick¬ 
land,* Eliza Jane Strickland, Milton Strickland, Wilson Strickland, 
Kintchen Dabney Strickland. 

Jno. A. McCurdy 
Married in 1876 
Elizabeth W. Strickland.* 

Their child was: Charles W. McCurdy.* 

Charles W. McCurdy* 

Married in 1900 
Curtice Henry Camp. 

Their children are: Frances McCurdy, Hilda McCurdy, Worth 
McCurdy. 

GRIFFETH FAMILY. 

John L. Griffeth. Born April 29th, 1796. 

Died Sept. 17th, 1871. 

Married 

Elizabeth Evans Griff eth. Died Sept. 17th, 1853. Age, 59 years. 
James S. Griffeth Born Dec. 28th, 1828. 

Married 

Martha Ann Jackson. 

They had the following children: John W. Griffeth, Francis J. 
Griffeth, Stinson II. Griffeth, James II. Griffeth, Joe E. Griffeth, 
Milton B. Griffeth, Clarence N. Griffeth, Robert L. Griffeth. 


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Stephenses 


These facts were gathered from Hon. L. L. Knight. 

THE STEPHENSES. 

Alexander Stephens, an Englishman who espoused the cause of 
the Pretender’s son, was the pioneer ancestor of the noted Stephens 
family of Georgia. Escaping to America in 1746, when the fortunes 
of the ill-starred claimant of the English crown suffered collapse, 
the adventurous follower of Charles Edward found shelter among 
the Shawnee Indians in Eastern Pennsylvania. He arrived upon 
the scene in good time to enjoy the wholesome outdoor exercise 
afforded by the French and Indian Wars and to train himself in 
the school of these preliminary skirmishes for the sterner hard¬ 
ships and experiences of the great struggle for independence. 
Though only a youth when he had first put the Atlantic Ocean be¬ 
tween himself and royal pursuit, he was quite a veteran when he 
clutched the musket to obey the Revolutionary call which came 
from Lexington. But he measured the whole length of the bitter 
contest, gallantly achieving the rank of captain. 

The occupations of Mars quite often obstruct the activities of 
Cupid. Alexander Stephens was matrimonially backward. His 
hair had already registered the heavy snow-falls before his heart 
began to experience the gentler emotions which betoken the ap¬ 
proach of spring. But the art of wooing was most successfully 
cultivated; and Catherine Baskins, who lived at the confluence of 
the Susqquehannah and Juanita Rivers agreed to become Mrs. 
Stephens. He no doubt used to good advantage the figure of the 
mated streams to picture the congenial currents which he was 
anxious to unite and he probably sealed negotiations in the breezy 
angle where the waters met. But it often happens that Orange 
Blossoms contain the seed of discord, and it was well for Captain 
Stephens that he had first been hardened as a soldier before ever 
he posed as a lover. Parental opposition was most relentless; and 
while the marriage took place, the important member of the family 
who by virtue of this compact became the father-in-law of Captain 
Stephens was never reconciled to the nuptials. Andrew Baskins 
possessed wide acres and large revenues, and, as wealth was 
reckoned in Colonial days, he was reputed rich. He probably 
wished his daughter to marry the son of some wealthy baron like 
himself. And unhappily for Captain Stephens he did not meet this 
parental requirement. He had silver enough, but instead of being 
in his pockets, it was on his head. It suffices to say that recon¬ 
ciliation never took place. Disapproval became disinheritance. 
But the couple remained in Pennsylvania until 1795, and then com- 


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ing southward the little family homestead was planted in the woods 
of North Georgia. The new settlers first located in Elbert County, 
but afterward crossed into Wilkes, locating in what later became 
Taliaferro. 

Disowned though she was, Mrs. Stephens, with the filial reverence 
so characteristic of the daughters of men, christened her eldest son, 
Andrew Baskins Stephens. Captain Stephens lived many years af¬ 
ter coming to Georgia, and finally died in 1813, at the advanced 
age of eighty-seven. Several children survived him; but Andrew 
Baskins Stephens is the only one who needs to be here considered. 
Educated in the university of the backwoods, otherwise known as 
the old field school, Andrew could boast of comparatively few 
accomplishments beyond the three R’s since patrimonial means 
were limited. But book learning was not considered so essential 
in those days; and besides he possessed what is far more important 
even in these days: sterling and sturdy character. 

Andrew B. Stephens was married twice. His first wife, whom he 
married in 1807 was Mary Grier, daughter of Aaron Grier and sister 
of Robert Grier, famous as the originator of Grier’s Almanac, which 
once shared honors with the family Bible in almost every Southern 
homestead. It is still held in wide repute and is now owned and 
published by John B. Daniel. Three children were the fruit of this 
first marriage, Mary, Aaron Grier and Alexander. Alexander, who 
afterwards added Hamilton to his name in honor of his preceptor, 
became the illustrious Alexander Hamilton Stephens, statesman, 
orator, author and sage, who was born February 11th, 1811. His 
mother, whose frail and delicate constitution he inherited, did not 
long survive his birth. 

Mr. Stephens married again in 1814. His second wife was 
Matilda S., daughter of Col. John Lindsay. Col. Lindsay was an 
officer in the Revolution. He lost his right hand during the struggle, 
and concealing his disfigured member under an ornamental silver 
badge he acquired the sobriquet of “Old Silver Fist.” He amassed 
large property at one time, but became the victim of misplaced con¬ 
fidence and died possessed of small holdings. Five children were 
born of this second marriage, three of whom reached adult years, 
John Lindsay, an accomplished and able lawyer, Catherine B. and 
Linton. Linton was born on July 1, 1823, and became the celebrated 
jurist and orator, who was scarcely less gifted than his more famous 
half-brother. 

Losing his father and mother within seven days of each other 
and when he was hardly three years old, Linton went to live with 
his maternal grandmother; while Alexander H. and Aaron G., who 
were the surviving children of the first marriage, were taken in 
care by Col. Aaron Grier. The patrimony which the children re¬ 
ceived on becoming of age w r as something over four hundred dollars 
• j ach. Much of the land which formerly belonged to the old home- 


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stead had been sacrificed, and one of the first duties which Alex¬ 
ander H. Stephens charged himself to perform, when he began to 
earn money was the repairing of the old grave yard and the re¬ 
purchasing of the property which his father had lost. Linton, 
after reaching some size, went to live with Alexander H. at Craw- 
fordville until he was ready for college. He received the most 
affectionate and tender care from his half-brother, who was now 
his legal guardian; and much of his success in life was due to the 
inspiration which he received at this early stage of his career. 

Alexander H. Stephens was a kinsman of the Bullocks, Evans 
and Lindsey’s through marriage, as his father married Col. Lind¬ 
sey’s daughter, his second marriage. 

Judge Linton H. Stephens and Aaron G. Stephens were blood 
relations. 


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Copy of Will of Jno. Lindsey 


In the name of God, Amen: I, John Lindsey, of the County of 
Wilkes, and the State of Georgia, being of sound mind and possess¬ 
ing all exercise of my rational faculties, do make this my last will 
and testament for the order of my affairs. 

1. I will that my body be decently interred wherever it pleases 
jny wife, should she survive me of it, at the pleasure of my executors 
without pomp or parade. 

2. That each of my children by my present wife, (Clarresa), shall 
have with their mother an equal portion of my estate, except what 
money is in the hands of my brother, Benjamin Lindsey, for the 
nse of common benefit of my two sons, i. e., Jackson Clarke Watkins 
Lindsey and Benjamin Ferro Hamilton Lindsey, amounting to two 
thousand dollars and upwards, and it is my desire that this money 
be appropriated to the education and support of them in the most 
prudent and beneficial way that may be devised by my executors. 

3. It is my desire that my wife should have her option whether 
she shall take for moiety marriage portion from her father’s, Na¬ 
thaniel Bullock or her dower as before filed her common and equal 
portion with her children by me of all my estate with the aforesaid 
exception in favor of my sons, Jackson and Benjamin. 

4. I recognize as my beloved and legally begotten children, 
Menecies Creswell Christmas Lindsey, Matilda Marbury Summer¬ 
ville Lindsey, Fannie Hawkins Bullock Lindsey and Sallie Collier 
Billingslea, along with their mother I wish my estate equally divided 
with the aforesaid exception in favor of my sons. 

5. I appoint and ordain as my executors of my last will and 
testament of this date, my wife, Claressa of Wilkes County, my 
son, James M. Lindsey of St. Mary’s and General John Clarke, 
James Corbett and Ebaneezer Harlow Cumming of Wilkes County, 
and in the settlement of my land holden from Col. George Dooley 
and Thomas Mitchell, Esq. I also appoint Mr. Seaborn Jones my 
lawful executor. This 31st day of July, 1804. 

JOHN LINDSEY. 

Signed, sealed and published in the presence of: 

JAMES MONTFORT, 

FRANCIS WILLIS, 

MECAJALI IIENTLEY. 

GEORGIA, Wilkes County. 

Personally appeared in open court, James Montford, one of the 
subscribing witnesses in the within will, and being duly sworn saith 
that he saw the within named John Lindsey sign, seal and declare 
the within instrument of writing to be his last will and testament 


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and at the time of so doing he was of sound and disposing mind 
and memory, and that Francis Willis and Mecajah Hentley sub¬ 
scribed as concurring evidence of the same. 

JAMES MONTFORT. 

D. TERRELL, R. P. W. C. 

Recorded the 10th day of July, 1811. 

P. S.—Matilda Summerville Lindsey married Andrew Baskins 
Stephens, their son, John Lindsey Stephens married Mary Eliza¬ 
beth Barker, their daughter Mary Matilda Stephens married Juday 
William Alexander Corry, and their daughter Marry Emma mar¬ 
ried Judge Horace Moore Holden, and they are the parents of Lieut. 
Frank Alexander Holden of the “All American” Division 328th 
Regiment. 


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Marriage Record of Kinsmen 


MARRIAGES OP THE EVANS FAMILY IN WILKES COUNTY, 
OGLETHORPE COUNTY, MADISON COUNTY, GEORGIA, 
ALSO MARRIAGES OP THE ALLEN’S. BULLOCK’S, 
GHOLSTON’S, GRIFFETH’S, CARITHERS’ AND OTHER 
KINSMEN TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION. 

Marriages of the Evans family in Wilkes County. Georgia. 

Elisha Evans to May Bird, March 30th, 1813. 

James Evans to Mary Malone, November 6th, 1818. 

David Evans to Sarah Weaver, June 29th, 1824. 

Joseph Evans to Susianna Cunningham, December 10th, 1824. 
Jno. Evans to Martha Gresham, November 30th, 1824. 

William Evans to Rachael Cotton, August 2nd 1827. 

Robert Evans to Eliza Johnson, January 11th, 1806. 

Sally Evans to Weaver Cotton, August 2nd, 1806. 

Susiannah Evans to Daniel Sloden, December 29th, 1807. 

Sarah Evans to Geo. Hickson, March 30th, 1813. 

Rhoda Evans to John Bates, April 15th, 1813. 

Snsiannah Evans to Peter Lunsford, June 16th, 1820. 

Louisa Evans to Samuel Darden, December 4th, 1823. 

Jane Evans to Archilous Harris, January 8th, 1824. 

Nancy Evans to William Freeman, May 19th, 1824. 

Nancy Evans to Thomas Williams, December 13th, 1824. 

Mary Evans to Jesse Short, January 13th, 1825. 

Nancy Evans to Daniel Lee, April 19th, 1826. 

Elizabeth Evans to John Swanson, May 20th, 1829. 


Marriages in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. 

Charles Allen to Jennie Bradshaw, December 27th, 1798. 
William Bradshaw to Nancy Allen, December 18th, 1802. 
Wyatt Hawkins to Nancy Allen, December 28th, 1803. 
Jeremiah Maxey to Polly Allen, January 10th, 1808. 

Peter Bradshaw to Lucy Allen, August 25th, 1808. 

Jos. Elkins to Fannie Allen, February 3rd, 1813. 

John Allen to Nancy Wood, May 4th, 1816. 

Benjamin Sackwell to Jane Allen, March 20th, 1819. 
Clement Y. Allen to Martha West, October 13th, 1821. 
Stephen Allen to Sally Brown, December 15th, 1821. 
Clement Y. Allen to Martha West, January 4th, 1822. 
Young S .Allen to Frances M. Allen, December 18th, 1823. 
Archibald Short to Mary Ann Allen, November 24th, 1834. 
William Allen to Jane Kines, March 14th, 1835. 

Richard Allen to Emily Kidd, May 11th, 1837. 


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Henry W. Allen to Martha Rainey, January 1, 1838. 

Thos. D. Hawks to Frances R. Allen, January 10th, 1839. 

Ladsen Chaplin to Susan Allen, September 6th, 1839. 

William G. Allen to Lucy Jane Mattox, July 7th, 1845. 

William F. Williams to Emily Allen, July 13th, 1850. 

Henry J. Allen to Frances E. Farmer, August 30th, 1851. 

Charles H. Allen to Sarah Ann Gilham, July 13th, 1853. 

Van Allen to Annie E. Adkins, December 3rd, 1867. 

V. B. Allen to Susan E. Williams, July 11th, 1872. 

Benjamin Edwards to Lucy Evans, April 9th, 1818. 

Hazel Lunsford to Susiannah Evans, October 24th, 1821. 

Jno. Evans to Frances N. Young. Married May 23rd, 1867, by 
Jno. F. Smith, J. P. 

Pope B. Spratling to Lizzie S. Evans. Married January 30th, 
1877, by M. W. Edwards, M. G. 

Wyatt Bullock to Betsy Allen, June 6th, 1803. 

Joseph Lumpkin to Anna Bullock, March 7th, 1804. 

Geo. A. Gordon to Susiannah Bullock, April 2nd, 1811. 

Thomas B. Bullock to Nancy Jackson, December 19th, 1837. 

Jno. N. Bullock to Milda L. G. Poss. Married November 16th, 
1865, by Wm. Davenport, J. P. 


Marriages in Madison County, Georgia. 

Nathaniel Allen to Rebeccah Atcheson, November 4th, 1819. 

Gray W. Allen to Nancy Morgan, August 27th, 1827. 

Stephen Allen to Martha Anderson, December 31st, 1832. 

Jno. Colbert to Frances Allen, December 15th, 1825. 

Hannibal Allen to Elizabeth Tolbert, February 17th, 1837. 
Benjamin Allen to Betsy Hall, February 29th, 1816. 

H. L. Allen to M. K. Harks, December 8th, 1864. 

Jno. B. Allen to Georgia A. Fitzpatrick, August 20th, 1868. 

Thos. B. Anthony to Nemacy Evans, June 18th, 1845. 

Alexander G. Bullock to Milly Sorrells, February 12th, 1818. 
Richard H. Bullock to Mary H. R. Griffeth, January 21st, 1836. 
Wm. G. Bullock to Elendor Sorrells, November 6th, 1823. 
Hawkins S. Bullock to Caroline Lester, January 1st, 1832. 

James Carithers (Record torn) to-, October-, 1812. 

B. Y. Carithers to M. Hall. 

R. J. Carithers to M. Carrington. 

R. D. Carithers to F. Bryant. 

S. D. Carithers to F. P. Dudley. 

J. A. Carithers to L. V. A. F. Bennett. 

R. T. Carithers to S. P. Carithers. 

W. J. Carithers to E. E. Hitchcock. 

J. J. Carithers to M. F. Johnson. 

W. W. Carithers to E. F. Power, January 4th, 1870. 


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Jno. G. Evans to Katherine Power, January 3rd, 1847. 

J. N. Evans to Susan Power, December 31st, 1845. 

G. N. Evans to Melessa Gloer, November 2nd, 1845. 

W. S. Evans to Betsy Jane Carithers, February 4th, 1848. 

G. W. Evans to E. J. Wood, August 16th, 1855. 

P. H. Evans to Z. F. Wood, December 20th, 1860. 

Henry T. Evans to Elizabeth McCurdy, February 5th, 1868. 
W .D. Gholston to N. J. Daniel. 

N. B. Gholston to N. Simms. 

J. L. Gholston to Mrs. J. Harris. 

Zacheriah Gholston to Nancy Gilbert, November 22nd, 1816. 
Benjamin Gholston to Catherine Eberhardt, June 22nd, 1815. 
Nathaniel B. Gholston to Betsy Jarrell, March 10th, 1825. 
Jno. Griffith to Elizabeth Evans, December 19th, 1816. 

Thos. D. Griffeth to Catherine Eberhardt, June 22nd, 1815. 
Jas. R. Griffith to Mary Ann Daniel, November 24th, 1825. 
Jas. L. Griffith to Ascentli Eberhardt, December 20th, 1825. 
Oliver P. Griffith to Margaret Eberhardt. 

Wm. Griffith to J. A. M. A. Hitchcock. 

W. H. Griffith to A. Brown. 

J. T. Griffith to S. Brown. 

James Griffith to Harlowe Gholston. 

David Evans to Polly Allen, November 19th, 1812. 

Thomas Evans to Clarissa Allen, December 26th, 1816. 

Jas. N. Evans to Susan C. Long, February 3rd, 1842. 

Isaiah Vineyard to Ann Stephens, February 1st, 1816. 

James Vineyard to Deanne Hays, January 3rd, 1822. 

Samuel Vineyard to Margaret Haynes, January 9th, 1823. 
William Vineyard to Mary Atcheson, January 20th, 1823. 
John Vineyard to Elizabeth Hodge, December 2nd, 1824. 
James Gholston to Polly Daniel, December 13th, 1833. 

Robert P. Griffith to Amanda L. Walker, April 6th, 1836. 
John Gholston to Elizabeth Williford, January 26tli, 1826. 
Archer Griffith to Sarah Bridges, March 1st, 1842. 

Hesekiah Wynn to Mary B. Evans, August 5th, 1835. 

Daniel Wynn to Frances G. Evans, January 3rd, 1836. 


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The Evans Family 


By Frances Cowles. 

Descendents of a Royal Sire, prominent in New England and 
the South. 

Evans in itself makes no pretentions as to its derivation. It is 
John—Plain John, that is all. Evanson is “the son of John” Evans 
is one way the name appears in the old records. 

Among New England forefathers were David and Henry Evans, 
of Boston, 1643, Thomas of Plymouth, 1635, and John of Roxbury 
and Hatfield, who is thought to have been a soldier in Phillip’s 
AVar. 

Henry Evans, born in Boston, removed to Tennessee. He was the 
son of Joseph, born in Ireland, and a physician, who died in Ohio. 
Joseph Henry, son of Henry, born in Boston, married Cora Taylor, 
a descendent of Governor AVilliam Bradford, and descendents of 
this line, of course step right into the Mayflower Society, without 
so much as “by your leave.” 

Another New England forebear was Sherebiah Evans, of Milton, 
Mass., a Revolutionary soldier. He was born in Maryland and 
married Elizabeth Dudley. Their son, Sherebiah, was born in 
Boston, 1796. The marriage connections of this line include the 
Hirrsons, Clarks, Cooks and AVarners. 

Sherebiah may have been the son or grandson of James, who 
came from England in 1715, with wife and four children to Cecil 
County, Maryland. One son, John, who was in the French and 
Indian AVar, removed to Lancaster County, Pa. His wife was 
Sarah Denny. 

In Maine, one of the prominent members of the family was George 
Evans, born in 1797. He was attorney general of the state, and a 
candidate for nomination as Vice President when Taylor was nomi¬ 
nated to the presidency. 

The family has always been prominent in Pennsylvania. The 
second rector of the historic church of Philadelphia, Christ Church, 
was Evan Evans, born in AVales. He was a leader of men and had 
a large following, not only in Pennsylvania, but in AVest Jersey 
and Delaware. He died about 1721, in Hartford County, Maryland. 

Lott Evans, born in AVales, a friend of Penn, set out on the same 
ship in 1681, but died at sea. He had three sons, Thomas, Charles 
and Lott, or John. AVhile Penn was in England in 1704, Thomas 
(Some records say John), was provisional or deputy governor of 

the colonies. . . ., 

Thomas married Sarah Roberts and they raised a large family. 
One son, Jonathan, had a foundry and the tree under which the 

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treaty was made by Penn with the Indian Chiefs was on the foundry 
grounds. 

Marriage connections of this branch of the family include the 
Pennsylvania and New Jersey families of Cadwalader, Gibbs, Car- 
negies, Hurlburts, Hobarts and Perrins. Joseph Evans of Philadel¬ 
phia, married Margaret Horner of Virginia. The Evanses of New 
York married into the family of DeAVitts, descendents of Tjerek 
deAYitt of Kingston, N. Y., \661. The Evanses were early settlers 
in South Carolina, where they had large grants of land. 

The blazon of the coat of arms is: Quarterly, first and fourth, 
argent, three boars heads, couped sable; second and third gules, a 
lion rampant reguardant, argent. 

Crest: a demi-lion reguardant, argent, holding between his paws, 
a boar’s head, couped, sable. 

Motto: Libertas. 

This is the coat-of-arms used by the Evans family of Pennsylvania. 

In St. Peter’s Church, Philadelphia, a window to the memory of 
Joseph R. Evans, represents the lion of the arms, with a boar’s 
head issueing from a coronet, and the motto: “Aut vincere, aut 
mori. ’ ’ 

(Copyright by The McClure Newspaper syndicate). 


BRANCH OF THE EVANS FAMILY AVHO LOCATED IN GEOR¬ 
GIA AND AYERE DESCENDENTS FROM NATHAN EVANS 
AYHO MOVED FROM PENNSYLVANIA TO CHER AAV, S. C. 
EARLY' IN 1736, AVITH OTHER EVANS FAMILIES AVHO 
AYERE KINSMEN. 

Nathan Evans had several daughters and three sons, Thomas 
Evans, David Evans and Nathan Evans. All three served in the 
Revolution with distinction. 

I am a descendent of Thomas Evans, who, after the Revolution, 
with other Evanses, located in AVilkes County, Georgia, and they 
were all granted Bounty Grants of land on account of their services 
in the Revolution. There were Thomas Evans, David Evans, Daniel 
Evans, Stephens Evans, Jesse Evans and AVilliam Evans, and I 
have photographs showing copies and diagrams of this land, taken 
from the records of the Ordinary’s office at Washington, AVilkes 
-County, Georgia. 

Thomas Evans had several daughters and two sons, one David and 
the other Thomas, who was my grandfather. There were seven 
counties cut off from the original AVilkes County, and my grand¬ 
father, Thomas Evans, and his brother David, located in Madison 
County, when it was made a county, near Paoli, Georgia, and with 
other kinsmen and friends, they organized and built New Hope 
Presbyterian Church, located at Paoli, Georgia. David Evans was 
a Deacon for forty years in this church. He was a land owner and 
one of the finest blacksmiths in the country at that time. He could 


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fix a clock or a watch, or do anything* of the kind. .He was also a 
Justice of the Peace and married many couples in that day and time. 

My grandfather, Thomas Evans, was also at that time a land 
owner and a planter. The following children were born to him and 
his wife, who was Clarissa Allen. These children were named after 
kinsmen, and the names Thomas, David, William, George, Nathaniel, 
etc., were family names as far back as we have any record. The 
children of my grandfather were as follows: 

William Nelson Evans, Thomas Allen Evans, George Nathaniel 
Evans, Elizabeth Luckie Evans, Francis Hawkins Evans, Susan 
Bullock Evans, Clarissa Wyatt Evans, Annie Lumpkin Evans, Sarah 
Hughes Evans, Menecies Lindsey Evans, Martha Jane Evans. 

William Nelson Evans married Selena Ann Williams, on January 
26th, 1851. They had two sons, James Evans and George Robert 
Evans. James Evans had several children and his widow and 
children are living at tKe present time, but he is dead. William 
Nelson Evans married a second time late in life. There were no 
children by this last marriage. 

Thomas Allen Evans, in early manhood moved to Muscogee 
County, near Columbus, Ga., and I have no record of his family. 

George Nathaniel Evans married Melissa Gloer on November 2nd, 
1845. He was also a farmer and land owner. He married a second 
time later in life, but there were no children by this second mar¬ 
riage. Children of this first marriage are as follows: 

Thomas Alexander Evans, known as “Bud,” and who is now liv¬ 
ing. (See list of his family.) Fannie, Pink, Tina, Susie, the latter 
two named being twins. Susie married Mr. Butler and later died. 
Mr. Butler then married Fannie. She is also now dead. Pink mar¬ 
ried Mr. Richards and they are both now dead, leaving no children. 

Elizabeth Luckie Evans married Thomas C. Kimball on Decem¬ 
ber 7th, 1848, and they had several children, but the names and the 
dates of their birth are unknown to me. 

Francis Hawkins Evans married William James on July 19th, 
1863. They had no children. This was Mr. James second mar¬ 
riage, and he had a son by a former marriage, by the name of 
William B. James. 

Susan Bullock Evans married Captain Wilson, and two children 
were born to them, Robert and Callie. Susan married a second time 
after Captain Wilson’s death, to W. T. Stark on December 31st, 
1862. There were no children by this marriage. 

Clarissa Wyatt Evans married Richard Franklin Grant Stapler, 
who was nick-named “Doc’’ and they had only one daughter, Min¬ 
nie, who now lives in Texas, and one son who is now dead. 

Annie Lumpkin Evans married Frances Rawson on December 
27th, 1850. A list of their children follows: 

Rebecca M. Rawson, born January 24th, 1854, in Athens, Ga. 

Robert Rawson, born 1852. Died 3 months later. 


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Jesolean Rawson, born 1858, at Columbus ,Ga. 

Ella Rawson, born 1868, at Lawrenceville, Ga. Lived one month. 

George R. Rawson, born July 19th, 1856, at Athens, Ga. 

William Washington Rawson, born Feb. 22nd, 1860, Athens, Ga. 

Frank Samuel Rawson, Jr., born July 16th, 1866, Athens, Ga. 

Henry T. Rawson, born August 12th, 1870, at Athens, Ga. 

Annie Clarissa Rawson, born May 12th, 1872, at Athens, Ga. 

Julia E. Rawson, born June lltli, 1874, at Athens, Ga. 

Rebecca M. Rawson married G. Hauser, and the following child¬ 
ren were born to them: 

Leonard Hauser, born November 17th, 1877. Died same date. 

Emil Hauser, born December 29th, 1878, at Athens, Ga. 

Alma Hauser, born Sept. 20th, 1882, at Athens, Ga. 

Charles E. Hauser, born Sept. 20th, 1885 ,at Athens, Ga. Died 
February 18th, 1887. 

The following deaths are recorded in the Rawson family: 

William Washington Rawson, died June 20th, 1906. 

Frank Samuel Rawson, Sr., died November 28th or 30th, 1889, 
at Columbus, Ga. 

Mrs, Annie Lumpkin Evans Rawson, died December 3rd, 1894, 
at Athens, Ga. 

Mrs. Anna Raiden Rawson, died May 14th, 1920, at Athens, Ga. 

Marriages in the Rawson family are recorded as follow:: 

Frank Samuel Rawson, Sr., married Annie Lumpkin Evans, De¬ 
cember 29th, 1849, at Athens, Ga. 

G. Hauser married Rebecca M. Rawson, November 17th, 1875. 

Frank Samuel Rawson, Jr., married Miss Frances Jenkins, Feb¬ 
ruary 20th, 1889. 

H. T. Rawson was married on April 13th, at Greenwood, S. C., 
but I have no record of his wife’s maiden name. 

Sarah Hughes Evans married E. L. Dottery, on September 2nd, 
3 868. They left two children, Susie and William. Susie married 
Hammock Anthony, of Winterville, Ga. William also has somo 
children but their names are unknown to me. 

Menecies Lindsey Evans married Henry Beusse on November 6th, 
1856. A list of the Beusse family will show the children who came 
to bless their home. 

Martha Jane Evans married Thomas Williams and they had sew 
eral children, the names of which were: Ferdie, Minnie, Sarah 
Robert and Willie. 

John Henry Dedrick Beusse was a brother of Henry Beusse and 
they both lived in Athens and both had large families, which the list 
will show. 

The Evans family of which I am a descendant, is one of the oldest 
families in America. They arrived from Wales in the early 1600’s, 
and with their different branches and connections form one of the 
largest and most prolific families in America and as far as I can 


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trace back in regards to the Evans family and also in my own family, 
the Beusses, they have believed in the Holy Bible and in Jesus 
Christ, who was crucified on Calvary, and I can say to my children 
and to all the Evanses, there is no better blood than runs in their 
veins. The simple fact that they were all Christians and American 
citizens who are always loyal to their country; and the facts will 
show that there has never been a war in America beginning with 
the Colonial Wars, the French Wars, the Revolutionary War, 
the War of 1812, the Indian Wars, the Civil War, the Spanish- 
American War and the World War; there has never been a war in 
which America was concerned but found the Evanses and the 
Beusses and their kinsmen doing their duty. When a man loves his 
God and offers his life for his country, I do not know of anything 
that is greater than duties well done. 

The Evans family, since Colonial days have proven their worth 
to America and did their duty during the Colonial days, during the 
Revolution and all the other wars. Some have been generals, some 
privates, some captains, lieutenants, etc., some have been preachers, 
some judges of courts, some justices of the peace, United States 
senator and a governor of South Carolina, some have been farmers 
and business men and a great many of them have made great suc¬ 
cesses in life and I want to say to the Evans kinsmen that they 
should be proud and flattered at their ancestors and every one of 
the Evans women descendants are entitled to join the Colonial 
Societies, the D. A. R.’s, Daughters of the Confederacy, etc., from 
the simple fact that their ancestors served in all these wars and the 
military records of a great many of them will be found in this 
book, and also of the Bensse family and their kinsmen and we can 
be proud of one fact and that is that they have not been drafted, 
but have always been ready to defend their country in its time of 
need. 

George Nathaniel Evans and William Nelson Evans both served 
through the Civil War. 

In my hunt for data for this book, I find that one William Evans, 
who served in the Revolution from Pennsylvania, claimed to come 
from Ireland. There were also some in Maryland, and a few in 
Virginia, but the majority of the Evanses were Welsh, and if the 
truth were known, they all started in England, Wales, Ireland and 
Scotland, and yon will find today some Evanses in England holding 
high government positions. 


THOMAS ALEXANDER EVANS. 

(Son of Geo. N. and Malisse Evans). 

Thomas Alexander Evans was born in Madison County, February 
15th, 1859, and married Geneva K. Attaway, December 31st, 1878. 
The following children were born to them: Nettie Malisse, Bessie, 


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Alvin Edgar, Geneva Maude, Susie Lillian, Frel Wilburn, Cleo 
Edna, Tommie Merdelle. 

Nettie Malisse Evans married T. C. Garrison and the following 
children were born to them: Thomas Howell Garrison, Alva Sue 
Garrison, Jurelle Garrison. 

Nettie Malisse Garrison died November 30th, 1921. 

Bessie Evans married W. H. Maley and the following children 
have blessed that union: Roberta Maley, Marjorie Maley. 

Susie Lillian Evans married F. T. Ritchie and the following 
children have been born to them: Sanford Ritchie, Evans Ritchie, 
Telford Ritchie, Geneva Ritchie, Sarah Ritchie. 

Alvin Edgar Evans married Eunice Boggs and the following 
children have been born to them: Therese Evans, Grace Evans, 
Martha Evans, Ruth Evans. 

Fred Wilburn Evans married Ebbie Appleby and the names of 
their children are as follows: Evelyn Evans, Fred W. Evans, Jr. 

Cleo Edna Evans married G. Hubert Martin. 

Cleo Edna Evans died Januarv 1st, 1917. 

Tommie Merdelle Evans married Hoyt E. Nunn. 

Alva Sue Garrison married Hoyt Merk. 

Thomas Howell Garrison married Thelma Culpepper. 

NOTE: Thomas Alexander Evans is a farmer and owns a beauti¬ 
ful farm. He also owns bank stock and mill stock. He is a man 
who provides well for his family and lives well and is a good 
Christian. 


GEORGE ROBERT EVANS. 

(Son of Wm. Nelson Evans). 

George Robert Evans was born September 11th, 1856, and mar¬ 
ried Eliza Ann Smith September 12th, 1879. She was born July 
6th, 1862. 

There were born to this couple, the following children, all of 
whom are now living: 

Allie Trammell Evans, born July 30th, 1880, and married Mary 
Alice Langford, January 3rd, 1901. 

t Ida Nevada Evans was born July 15th, 1882, and married Edgar 
Newton Langford, April, 1900. 

Maud Coelia Evans, was born February 29th, 1885, and married 
Warren Columbus Reynolds, December, 1903. 

Never Inez Evans, was born July 24th, 1887, and married Thomas 
Holeman, September, 1909. 

William Claudius Sanford Evans, was born March 6th, 1890, and 
married Mary Jane Holeman, December, 1909. 

Ina Irene Evans, was born September 25th, 1892 and married 
Claude Pharr, May, 1922. 


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Minnie Lena Evans, was born April 2nd, 1895, and married Wil¬ 
liam Ely Reynolds, January 3rd, 1915. 

Katie Pauline was born February 8th, 1898, and married Jeffy 
Jarrett, August 29th, 1919. 

Ruth Linnieoleen Evans, was born February 2nd, 1901, and mar¬ 
ried Roy Doster, November 24th, 1921. 

Emma Julia Evans, was born January 7th, 1904, and married 
Robert Royce Culberson, December 24th, 1922. 

NOTE: George Robert Evans is as fine a specimen of manhood 
as any one would care to see. He is over six feet tall and weighs 
around 210 to 215 pounds. He is a farmer and is the first man to 
invent the disc plow, but being a little careless and putting off 
getting a patent, someone stole his idea and got a patent first. He 
is a good neighbor and a friend to humanity. 


EVANS FAMILY, DECENDED FROM NATHAN EVANS, 
LOCATED AROUND CHERAW, MARION AND BENNETTS- 
VILLE, ETC., S. C. 

Thomas Ayer married Frances Malone. 

Ann Peggy Ayer married James Magee. 

Elizabeth Magee married Thomas or Geo. Hodges. 

Elizabeth Hodges married Col. Thomas Evans. 

Children of Col. Thomas and Elizabeth (Hodges) Evans: 

1. Josiah J. Evans married Dorothea DeWitt, (daughter Wm. De- 

Witt and Mary Devonald). 

2. Thomas Evans married Rebecca DeWitt. (Bishop Gregg states 

that Thomas Evans married a daughter of Harris Evans, 
whereas he should have said Harris DeWitt). 

3. Abel Evans. 

4. Rebecca Evans married Charles Irby. (Son Col. Chas. Irby and 

Mehitabel (Kolb Irby). 

5. Elisa Evans married Christopher Pogues, and moved West. 
Judge Josiah James Evans, son of Col. Thomas and Elizabeth 

(Hodges) Evans, born in 1786, died May 6th, 1858, while 
sitting in his chair in the Senate, Washington, D. C., mar¬ 
ried Dorothea DeWitt, daughter of William and Mary 
(Devonald )DeWitt. 

(See page 26, Thomas’ History of Marlboro). 

Children of Josiah J. and Dorothea (DeWitt) Evans: 

1. William Evans married Jane Witherspoon, of Society Hill, S. C. 

2. Edward Evans married Chestnut Taylor, of Columbia, S. C. 

3. Samuel Wilds Evans married Alexina Wallace. 

4. Thomas Evans married Miss Campbell. 

5. Elizabeth Evans married Alfred Martin, of Hampton County, 

S. C. 


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William Evans, son of Josiali J. and Dorothea (DeWitt) Evans, 
married Jane Witherspoon, of Society Hill, S. C. 

Children of William and Jane (Witherspoon) Evans: 

1. Witherspoon Evans married Miss Berta Spain, of Darlington, 
S. C. Witherspoon Evans died several years ago; his widow 

lives in Darlington, S. C., with her brother, Judge Thos. II. 
Spain. They had no children. 

2. Devonald Evans married Miss Lula Dargan, of Darlington, S. 

C. Devonald Evans is dead, and his widow resides in Darling¬ 
ton, S. C., with her two sons, Harry D. Evans and Lucian D. 
Evans. 

Edward Evans, son of Josiah J. and Dorothea (DeWitt) Evans, 
married Chestnut Taylor, of Columbia, S. C. They lived in 
Society Hill, S. C. 

Children of Edward and Chestnut (Taylor) Evans: 

1. Rosa, married Lucas McIntosh, of Society Hill, S. C. 

2. Chestnut, lives at Society Hill, S. C. 

3. Alice, became the second wife of Capt. J. H. Hardin. 

4. Josiah, died unmarried. 

5. Taylor, died unmarried. 

Children of Rosa (Evans) and Lucas McIntosh: 

1. David, married Mary Hutchinson. 

2. James L., married Florence Manigault. 

3. Louisa, married J. A. Spruill, Cheraw, S. C. 

4. Chestnut, married Raymond Donald, Society Hill, S. C. 

5. Rosa, married W. Edwin Dargan, Darlington ,S. C. 

6. Martha, married Robert Timmerman, Charleston, S. C. 

Samuel Wilds Evans, son of Josiah J. and Dorothea (DeWitt) 
Evans married Alexina Wallace, Daughter of Andrew Wal¬ 
lace of Scotland, and Sallie Patrick. 

Children of Samuel Wilds and Alexina (Wallace) Evans: 

1. Sallie Evans married Dr. Alexander McQueen. (Their only 

child died in Texas. 

2. Dora Evans married Edward McIntosh, a brother of Lucas Mc¬ 

Intosh. They had no children. 

3. Wm. DeWitt Evans married Mary E. Pegues. 

4. Elizabeth Evans married W. Robert Godfrey, Cheraw, S. C. 

They had no children. 

5. Thomas Smith Evans never married. 

6. Agnes Evans became the second wife of Dr. John McLean, of 

Cheraw, S. C. 

7. Mary Evans married Wm. C. Wilson, of Darlington, S. C. 

8. E. Wallace Evans of Bennettsville, S. C. 

Children of Wm. DeWitt Evans, son of Samuel Wilds and 
Alexina (Wallace) Evans, and his wife Mary E. Pegues, 
daughter of Benj. F. and Sara Ann Wilds (Gillespie) Pegues. 
1. Alexina Wallace Evans lives in Bennettsville, S. C. 


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2. Harriet Hodges Evans married Dr. F. S. Hodges, of Jack¬ 

sonville, Fla. 

3. Nelle Pegues Evans married H. J. Thurman, of Virginia. 

They live in Greensboro, N. C. 

4. Samuel Wilds Evans married Rebecca Noble Calhoun. 

They live at Clemson College, S. C. 

5. Frank Pegues Evans married Cornelia Witherspoon, of 

Florida. They live in Cheraw, S. C. 

6. Josiah James Evans, Attorney-at-Law, BennettsviHe, S. C. 

7. Elizabeth Godfrey Evans, Greensboro, N. C. 

8. Thomas Smith Evans married Mildred Kinsey. They live 

in Cheraw, S. C. 

9. Nan Keitt Evans married Thos. B. Spencer, Tarboro, N. C. 

10. Dorothea DeWitt Evans died young. 

11. Margaret DeWitt Evans married Claude D. Crosby, Ches¬ 

ter S. C. 

Children of Agnes Evans, daughter of Samuel Wilds and Alex- 
ina (Wallace) Evans and her husband, Dr. John McLean, of 
Cheraw, S. C. 

1. Dora McLean died unmarried. 

2. Agnes McLean married William Hickson, Cheraw, S. C. 

3. William Godfrey McLean died in Railroad accident when 

a young man. 

Children of Mary Evans, daughter of Samuel Wilds and Alex- 
ina (Wallace) Evans and her husband, Wm. C. Wilson, of 
Darlington, S. C. 

1. Thomas Evans Wilson married Bertha Briggs, Darling¬ 

ton, S. C. 

2. Alexina Evans Wilson married Albert S. James, Darling¬ 

ton, S. C. 

3. Hannah Lide Wilson married B. Frank Pegues, Cheraw, 

S. C. 

4. May- Wilson married W. Wilds Mclver, Greenville, 

S. C. 

5. John McLean Wilson died young. 

Thomas Evans, son of Josiah James Evans and Dorothea (De¬ 
Witt) Evans married Miss Campbell. 

Children of Thomas Evans and- (Campbell) Evans. 

1. Josiah Evans died young, killed in Civil War. 

2. Campbell Evans who disappeared. 

3. Mary Evans married Campbell King. They had one son, Kirk 

King of Darlington, S. C., who married Mrs. Lucy (Davis) 
Norment, the widow of Frank Norment of Darlington, S. C. 
Elizabeth Evans, daughter of Josiah James Evans and Dorothea 
(DeWitt 1 Evans, married Alfred Martin of Hampton County, 
S. C. 


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Children of Elizaetli (Evans) and Alfred Martin. 

1. William Martin. 

2. Alfred Martin. 

3. Alice Martin married Samuel Marshall. 

4. Elizabeth Martin married Mr. Cozart, of Augusta, Ga. 

5. Elise Martin married Mr. Jones, and they live at the old home 

in Hampton County, S. C. 

Eliza Evans, daughter of Col. Thomas and Elizabeth (Hodges) 
Evans, married Christopher Pegues and they moved to the 
West. 

Children of Eliza (Evans) and Christopher Pegues: 

1. Samuel Wilds Gillespie Pegues. 

They had several other children and decendants, but none of 
them reside in S. C., and their names are not known. 
Rebecca Evans, daughter of Col. Thomas and Elizabeth 
(Hodges) Evans married Charles Irby, son of Col. Charles 
Irby, the settler and his wife Mehitabel (Kolb) Irby. 

They had a number of children and after the death of Mr. Irby, 
(See page 30, Thomas’ History of Marlboro) the family moved 
to Alabama. Among the children are: 

1. Mary Irby married Benj. Franklin Pegues. She died and 

Pegues afterwards married Sara Ann Wilds Gillespie and had 
a large family of children. (See Gillespie Chart). 

2. John Irby married Catherine Alison. 

3. Sarah Irby married William J. Pegues. 

NOTE:—Benjamin Franklin Pegues and William J. Pegues 
were brothers and they married sisters. 

(See also page 92, Gregg’s History for Irby family). 

Mary Irby, daughter of Charles and Rebecca (Evans) Irby 
married Benjamin Franklin Pegues. 

Children of Benj. Franklin and Mary (Irby) Pegues: 

1. Julia Pegues married W. W. Irby, her father’s first cousin. He 
was the son of James Irby and his wife, Miss Wright. 
Children of W. W. Irby and Julia (Pegues) Irby: 

1. Ida Burch Irby married Walter D. Pegues, Clieraw, S. C. 

2. Mary Ethel Irby. 

3. Charles Irby. 

4. William W. Irby, married and lives in Florida. 

5. Joe Irby. 

6. Julia Irby. 

7. Frank Irby, lives in Cheraw, S. C. 

E. Rebecca Irby, lives in Cheraw, S. C. 

NOTE:—Benj. Franklin Pegues afterwards married Sara Ann 
Wilds Gillespie. See Gillespie and Evans lines for their 
decendents. 

See line of James Irby, son of Col. Charles Irby. 

John Irby, son of Charles and Rebecca (Evans) Irby, married 


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Catherine Allison, daughter of (Catherine Allison Irby after¬ 
wards married John C. Bethea, and they had one child, Ed. 
C. Bethea). 

Children of John Irby and Catherine (Allison) Irby: 

1. Elizabeth Irby married Henry J. Rogers. 

Children of Elizabeth (Irby) and Henry J. Rogers: 

1. Kate Rogers married John R. Townsend. 

2. Henry Rogers married Elizabeth Harrington, daughter of 

H W. and Rebecca (Pegues) Harrington. See Evans and 
Harrington lines. 

3. Nannie Rogers married William Hillard. (She lives in 

Florence, S. C., and has a number of children. One of 
her daughters married an Ervin, in Darlington County, 
and the youngest married a Mr. LaBruce from George¬ 
town, S. C. 

4. Julius C. Rogers married Anna Draughan. They live in 

Bennettsville, S. C. 

5. Frank Benjamin Rogers married Minnie Sparks. 

6. Thomas Irby Rogers, Attorney-at-Law, Bennettsville, S. C. 

7. Elizabeth Rogers lives in Bennettsville, S. C. 

8. Henrietta Rogers married W. H. Ellerbe. (See Thomas 

Ellerbe, Jr., record). 

9. John I. Rogers married (1) Annie Drake, (2) Harriett Har¬ 

rington, daughter of James Auld and Sallie (Threadgill) 
Harrington. See Evans and Harrington lines. 

10. Minnie Rogers. 

Henry J. Rogers later married Elizabeth Kinney and had two 
children, Annie Lou, who married Eli Gregg and lives in 
Florence County, and Nick Rogers. 

Thomas Irby Rogers, son of Henry J. and Elizabeth |Irby) 
Rogers, married Cora McCormick. 

Their Children: 

1. Elizabeth Rogers married John Drake, Bennettsville, S. C. 

2. Cora Belle Rogers married Mr. Perry, Batesburg, S. C. 

3. Nannie Rogers, lives at Bennettsville, S. C. 

4. Hortense Rogers, lives at Bennettsville, S. C. 

5. Henry Rogers, lives at Bennettsville, S. C. 

6. Kate Rogers, lives at Bennettsville, S. C. 

Henrietta Rogers, daughter of Henry J. and Elizabeth (Irby) 
Rogers, married William H. Ellerbe. (Gov. of S. C.) 

Their children: 

1. Earl Rogers Ellerbe married Ida Rogers, (near Bennetts¬ 

ville, S C.) 

2. William S, Ellerbe married Kate Edens, Bennettsville, S. C. 

3. Henry Irby Ellerbe married Miss Incas of Charleston, S ; C. 

4. Sarah Elizabeth Ellerbe married Wm. Gary Nichols, Nich¬ 

ols, S. C. 


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5. Frank Rogers Ellerbe, Bennettsville, S. C. 

6. William Haselden Ellerbe, died young. 

Sarah Irby, daughter of Charles and Rebecca (Evans) Irby, 
married William J. Pegnes. (Died Feb. 6th, 1840). 

Children of William J. and Sarah (Irby) Pegues. 

1. Rebecca, married Henry William Harrington. 

2. Jane, married James McNeill. 

3. Harriett, married Marshall Threadgill. 

Jane Pegues, daughter of Wm. J. and Sarah (Irby) Pegues, 
married James McNeill. Their descendants live in Moul¬ 
trie, Ga. 

Harriett Pegues, daughter of Wm. J. and Sarah (Irby) Pegues, 
married Marshall Threadgill. 

Their children: 

1. Sallie Threadgill married her first cousin, James Auld 

Harrington. (See his line). 

2. John Threadgill, lives in North Carolina. 

Rebecca Pegues, daughter of Wm. J. and Sarah (Irby) Pegues, 
married (1) Henry William Harrington, and (2) W. P. 
Pollock, of Cheraw, S. C. 

Children of H. W. and Rebecca (Pegues) Harrington: 

1. James Auld Harrington married (1) Sallie Threadgill, his 

first cousin, and (2) Sallie Gillespie. 

2. Henry W. Harrington married Lucy Waddill, of Cheraw, 

S. C. 

3. Elizabeth Harrington married Henry Rogers, near Rock¬ 

ingham, N. C. 

4. Harriett Harrington married Dr. Theo. E. Wannamaker 

Cheraw, S. C. 

5. Charlotte Powe Harrington married Lemuel Drake Har- 

rall, Cheraw, S. C. 

Children of W. P. and Rebecca (Pegues) Pollock: 

1. Nan Pollock married E. Waddill Pegues and lives in Bir¬ 

mingham, Ala. 

2. Jennie Pollock married Judge Rathbourn and lives in 

Providence, R. I. 

3. Hon. Wm. P. Pollock married Elizabeth Salley, of Orange¬ 

burg, and lives in Cheraw, S. C. 

James Auld Harrington, son of H. W. and Rebecca (Pegues) 
Harrington, married (1) Sallie Threadgill, daughter of 
Marshall and Harriett (Pegues) Threadgill, and (2) Sallie 
Gillespie, daughter of Francis S. and Sidney (Lockwood) 
Gillespie. (See Gillespie line). 

Children of James A. and Sallie (Threadgill) Harrington: 

1. Harriett Harrington married John Rogers. See John Irby 

and Catherine (Allison) Irby line. 

2. Henry Harrington. 


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James Auld Harrington died in April, 1920. 

No children by second marriage. 

Henry W. Harrington, son of H. W. and Rebecca (Pegnes) 
Harrington married Lucy Waddill. 

Their children: 

1. Lula Harrington. 

2. Ruth Harrington. 

Annie Harrington, died young. 

Mr. Harrington’s widow lives in Cheraw, S. C., with her two 
daughters. 

Elizabeth Harrington, daughter of H. W. and Rebecca 
(Pegues) Harrington, married Henry Rogers. 

Their children: 

They have several sons and a daughter, Charlotte, Rogers, 
and live near Rockingham, N. C. See line of John Irby 
and Catherine (Allison) Rogers. 

Harriett Harrington, daughter of H. W. and Rebecca (Pegues) 
Harrington, married Dr. Theo. E. Wannamaker, Cheraw, 
S. C. 

Their children: 

1. Irene Wannamaker married Henry Powe Duvall, Jr., Che¬ 

raw, S. C. (She died about 2 years ago). See Powe and 
Ellerbe lines. 

2. Harriett Wannamaker married Paul Hardin, Chester, S. C. 

3. Dr. Theo. E. Wannamaker, Jr., married Ethel Page. 

4. Herbert W. Wannamaker married Leila Kinsey. 

5. J. Henry Wannamaker married Marion Hurt. 

6. L. Caston Wannamaker. 

7. William Haynesworth Wannamaker married Helen Mclver, 

of Cheraw, S. C. (See Powe and Ellerbe lines). 

8. Elise Wannamaker married George Gage, of Chester, S. C. 
Charlotte Powe Harrington, daughter of H. W. and Rebecca 

(Pegues) Harrington, married Lemuel Drake Harrall, of 
Cheraw, S. C. 

Their children: 

1. Henry Harrington Harrall married Kate McGregor, of 

Chesterfield, S. C. 

2. Alexander Pollock Harrall, Cheraw, S. C. 

3. Annie Laurie Harrall, Cheraw, S. C. 

4. Pauline Harrall, died young. 

5. Charlotte Harrington Harrall married Capt. W. P. Walker, 

of Charleston, S. C. 

6. James Presley Harrall, Windsor, Ky. 

(See Powe and Ellerbe lines). 

Nan Pollock, daughter of H. W. and Rebecca (Pegues) Pol¬ 
lock, married W. Waddill Pegues, of Birmingham, Ala. 
(See Gillespie line). 


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Their children: 

1. Mancy, died young. 

2. Rebecca. 

3. Virginia. 

Martin DeWitt married Ethel Douthel. 

Their children: 

1. Capt. Wm. DeWitt married Mary Devonald, daughter of Daniel 
Devonald. Their ten children were: 

1. Maj. John DeWitt married Nancy Powe, daughter of 

Thomas and Rachel (Allen) Powe. 

2. Charles M. DeWitt, who never married. 

3. Daniel, who died young. 

4. Mary DeWitt married Edward Edwards. The Edwards 

family in Darlington County are descended from them. 

5. Sarah DeWitt married (1) Mr. James, and (2) Samuel 

Ervin. 

6. Eleanor DeWitt married Allen Chapman. The Mathesons 

in Cheraw and all the Chapman’s are descended from 
them. 

7. Elizabeth DeWitt married Samuel Wilds and (2) Dr. 

Thomas Smith. 

8. Margaret DeWitt married Enoch Hanford. Their daughter 

married a Mclver of Cheraw, and was the mother of 
Judge Henry Mclver, of Cheraw, S. C. 

9. Dorothea DeWitt married Judge Josiah J. Evans. (See 

Evans record). 

10. Harriett, died young. 

2. Harris DeWitt married (1) Elizabeth, daughter of Richard 

Breckington, and (2) Miss Pawley, and moved out west. 

3. Thomas DeWitt. 

4. John DeWitt married and was the father of Martin DeWitt, of 

Darlington, S. C. 

John DeWitt, son of Wm. and Mary (Devonald) DeWitt, mar¬ 
ried Nancy Powe, daughter of Thomas and Rachel (Allen) 
Powe. 

Their children: 

1. Sarah DeWitt maried (1) John McCollough, and (2) Mr. 
Wheeler, an Episcopal minister, who is buried in the 
Episcopal cemetery at Society Hill, S. C. 

Rev. John McCollough, the son of John and Sarah (DeWitt) 
McCollough, was an Episcopal Clergyman; was quite a Mis¬ 
sionary in the Church, and built up a number of churches in 
the Piedmont section of the State. He was located at 
Greenville, Spartanburg, Union, and Walhalla, where he died. 

Phoebe Wheeler,, the daughter of Mr. Wheeler and Sarah (De¬ 
Witt) Wheeler, died young. 

Elizabeth DeWitt, daughter of William and Mary (Devonald) 


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DeWitt, married (1) Samuel Wilds, and (2) Dr. Thomas 
Smith There were no children by the second marriage. 
Children of Judge Samuel and Elizabeth (DeWitt) Wilds: 

1. Caroline Wilds married D. R. W. Mclver. 

Children of D. R. W. and Carolina (Wilds) Mclver: 

1. Carrie Mclver married Major J. J. Lucas, of Societv Hill 

S. C. 

2. Fanny Mclver married Geo. Williams, brother of Gov. 

Williams. 

3. Stewart Mclver, of Greenville, S. C. 


NATHAN EVANS. 

Nathan Evans was a Welshman, who came from the State of 
Pennsylvania, in the year 1735 or 1736, to Cheraw, S. C., and a few 
months later located on land granted to him on what was known 
as Cat Fish. He came to Cat Fish from the Welsh Neck above, and 
was one of the first who went to the lower part of the Welsh tract 
and remained there in the neighborhood of Tart's Mill, land in this 
neighborhood being granted him. 

He had three sons and several daughters, the names of his sons 
being Thomas, David and Nathan, all three of whom served in the 
Revolutionary War. David was a Captain in the Revolution and a 
man of note. I do not think he was ever married. 
Nathan and Thomas both had several children, among the 
latter being Thomas Evans, Jr., who after the Revolution moved to 
Wilkes County, Ga., and was granted land for his services in the 
Revolution. Some of his kinsmen also came with him and they 
located in Wilkes County, Ga. 

One of the daughters of Nathan Evans married into the family of 
Baker's, who were very prominent in the Revolution. 

Nathan Evans was grandfather of the late Thomas Evans and 
General William Evans, of Marion, S. C., and was father of Nathan 
Evans, who was a man of upright character through life. 

Tart’s Mill, referred to above is about six miles above Marion, 
S. C. 


WILLIAM EVANS, SON OF DANIEL EVANS. 

Written by W. A. Clarke. 

The Evans family is of Welsh origin and its earliest immigrants 
came to American in ante Revolutionary days. Daniel Evans served 
in that war as a member of Capt. Patrick Carr’s Burke County 
Rangers, and possibly in other commands. He lived in Burke 
County not far from the present site of Story’s Mill, and he and 


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his wife, “Polly” gave to the world a number of children, only 
three of whom bear personal relation to these records, viz: 

William Evans married Mahala Wiggins and lived for a time at 
Mount Enon. About 1840, he located at Brothersville and his home 
is still owned, though not occupied by one of his surviving daugh¬ 
ters. Five children were born to him, Leonidas, Floyd, Claudia 
(•Crockett,), Sarah Eleanora (Walker) and M. Sophronia. Only the 
two last named still survive. William Evans died during my boy¬ 
hood, but I recall his stalwart frame, his fondness for fox and deer 
hunting and his staunch adherence to the Baptist faith. His son, 
Floyd, was my boyhod schoolmate, and when our academic days 
were ended, I went to Emory College and he to the Kentucky Mili¬ 
tary Institute at Frankfort. In the summer of ’61, an entertain¬ 
ment was given at the old Poythressville Academy near McBean, 
for the benefit of the soldiers and Floyd, Bill Wimberly, my brother 
and myself were present. We had all arranged to go to the front 
and were talking in light and jocular vein of the life before us 
when Floyd said, “Boys, you may laugh and joke about it, but we 
are not all coming home again.” In sad fulfillment of his prophecy, 
the war had not grown old before his young and manly form was 
sleeping in a soldier’s grave. My classmate, Wimberly, came back 
again, but maimed for life by a cruel minie at Gettysburg, while my 
brother brought from the field before the end had come, a fatal lung 
affection and his young life faded out in the bloom of early man¬ 
hood. The writer alone came out unscathed by ball or shell or fell 
disease, and yet despite this fact within these later years an enter¬ 
prising manufacturer of artificial legs has plied me o’re and o’re 
again with letters, circulars, and other advertisements, insisting that 
I allow him to supplement my walking outfit with this added, and in 
his opinion, absolutely needed equipment. Many years ago I was 
playing with a little child—a child too young to place a seal upon 
her lips, and as she played she said to me, “Your legs looks like 
they was all breeches,” and I could scarce deny the soft impeach¬ 
ment. And so it may be that my manufacturing friend had based 
his zeal and misplaced interest in my locomotive welfare upon the 
fact that nature had failed to give me bodily at least, any “visible 
means of support.” 

Daniel Evans who came to Wilkes County, Ga., and was granted 
land for service in the Revolutionary War. This land was granted 
1783. 


COPIED FROM “A LOST ARCADIA” WRITTEN BY WALTER 

A. CLARKE 

(A Kinsman). 

And now before taking leave of the Walker tribe there are two 
or three incidents in the general family history that may not be lack¬ 
ing in interest to the reader. 


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During the Revolutionary War, Valley Forge was owned by 
Joseph Walker, and his home was headquarters for Washington’s 
officers. During all that cold and dreary winter of 1777, Joseph’s 
good wife, Sarah made corn mush and sent it with milk to the senti¬ 
nels standing guard near her home. 

Helen Walker, of Edinburgh, Scotland, was the original of the 
beautiful character, Jeanie Deans, portrayed by Walter Scott in 
his “Heart of Mid Lothian.” After her death, the tender hearted 
novelist placed a monument at her grave bearing on its face a 
beautiful tribute to her memory written with his own hand. 

Allusion has been made to the marriage of my grandfather, Reu¬ 
ben Walker to Martha Jones Evans. Nearly fifty years later, Wil¬ 
liam Evans Walker, son of Col. A. C. Walker, was married to Sarah 
Eleanora Evans, daughter of William Evans. These two unions of 
the two families add interest to the fact that some centuries ago the 
marriage of Hannah Walker to Samuel Evans of Wales, connected 
the Walker name and blood with the King of Wales and the King 
of Man, both of whom were descended from King Lind, who ruled 
Brittany when invaded by Julius Caesar in 54 and 55 B. C. 

Some years ago Camp 1389 U. C. V. secured the services of Rev. 
Mr. Ledbetter, pastor of the Methodist Church at Louisville, Ga., in 
a lecture for their benefit. Major William Gary was selected to 
introduce the speaker. While waiting for the audience to material¬ 
ize, which I regret to say it failed to do, and while engaged in con¬ 
versation with the lecturer and Major Gary, the matter of pedigree 
became the subject of discussion. Mr. Ledbetter said that he was a 
descendant of King George of England, and Major Gary, not caring 
to be overshadowed in ancestral prestige, replied that he was more 
:,han sixty years of age before he learned that he was a lineal 
descendant of King Robert Bruce of Scotland. 

The writer, absolutely unconscious of any trace or taint of royal 
blood in his plebeian veins, sat by in still unbroken silence and yet 
if I had known then what I really do not know now, that my Evans 
ancestral line carried me back to Mervyn Vrych, the King of Man, 
and Essyx his wife, the daughter of the King of Wales, and through 
them both to old King Lind of Early Brittany, whose brother, Cas- 
wallon had with his sturdy yeomanry driven back the veteran 
legions of Julius Caesar from the British Coast, my tongue would 
scarce have been so silent, nor my lips so mute. 

And yet, if my friend, Peter G. Walker is not off in his arithmetic, 
and if old King Lind had lived only a thousand years ago, and if, 
as Tom Watson would say, he was “Some Punkins” in his day, and 
if my Evans ancestral line came directly from him, my share of his 
royal prestige would be represented by the fraction one divided by 
one billion, three hundred and seventeen thousand, eight hundred 
and seventy-four. Run it back another thousand years to this old 
Sovereign’s ancient era and there my royal strain would vanish 
into thin and misty air. 


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W elsh Settlements in South Carolina 


From the time of its first settlement, it was esteemed a matter of 
the utmost importance for the safety and prosperity of the Province 
that its population should increase as rapidly as possible. 

To this end, every inducement was held out to immigration. The 
Royal bounty was promised in various forms, to the poor and 
oppressed of other lands, to make America their home. 

The unoccupied territory of the New World, fair and fertile, and 
teeming in boundless resources, was declared to be open to the over¬ 
burdened industry and fruitless enterprise of the densely populated 
state of Europe. Thus encouraged, large accessions were made, 
at successive periods, to our infant settlements. 

From 1696 to 1730, although it’s population gradually increased, 
no large addition was made, at any one time, to the inhabitants 
of Carolina. About the latter year, a new scheme was adopted to 
promote the settlement of the province which proved successful 
beyond the most sanguine expectations of the Government. Gov¬ 
ernor Johnson was instructed to mark out eleven townships, in 
square plots, on the sides of rivers, consisting each of twenty 
thousand acres and to divide the land within them into shares of 
fifty acres for each man, woman and child that should come over 
to occupy and improve them. Each township was to form a 
Parish, and all the inhabitants were to have an equal right to the 
river. As soon as the Parish should increase to the number of a 
hundred families, they were to have the right to send two members 
of their own election to the Assembly, and to enjoy the same 
privileges as the Parishes already established. Each settler was to 
pay four shillings per year for every hundred acres of land, ex¬ 
cepting the first ten years, during which they were to be rent free. 
Governor Johnson issued a warrant to St. John, Surveyor General 
of the Province, empowering him to go and mark out these town¬ 
ships ; but he, having demanded an exorbitant sum of money for 
bis trouble, the members of the council agreed among themselves 
to do this piece of service for their country. Accordingly, eleven 
townships were marked out by them in the following situations: 
Two on the river Altamaha, two on Savannah, two on Santee, 
one on Pedee, one on Waccamaw, one on Wateree, and one on Black 
River. 

The township on the Pedee was called Queensborough; and to the 
time of its being marked out—1731-32—or a period but little sub¬ 
sequent, is to be assigned the date of our first settlements. There 
was no delay in the execution of this work (of marking out the 
townships), which had been committed to the Governor by his 


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Maejsty’s Government, for building up it’s waste places, and the 
more speedy settlement of the Province. 

The first proceedings with reference to the laying out of the 
townships, was in meeting of the Council on Friday, March 16th, 
1731, in Charles-town; his Excellency, the Governor, the Honorable 
Lieutenant Governor, Messrs. Arthur Middleton, Robert Wright, 
Thomas Waring, John Fenwick and William Bull, being present. 
It was resolved “That the Honorable Mr. Chief Justice Wright 
and Alexander Skeene, Esq., do mark out three townships, pursu¬ 
ant to his Majesty’s instructions for that purpose, a copy of which 
is to be given them, with this resolution. One upon Black River, 
one upon Pedee River, and the other upon Waccamaw River—that 
they return plots of same to this Board, and that they be allowed 
five hundred pounds currency for each township out of the Public 
Treasury for marking out the same. Other persons were also 
appointed on this occasion to mark out townships on other rivers, 
according to instructions. In the following year, viz: March, 1732— 
the township on the Waccamaw appears to have been laid out and 
called Kingston. We are assured, said the Council, in reply to a 
message on the subject from the Lower House, “That at the time 
of the marking out of the said township, there were no settlements 
made within the same, except one, then begun by Jennour, who 
claimed 700 acres, but by what title we could not learn, he then 
being in North Carolina; nor were there any other claims made to 
lands within the township, that we could hear of, save only by 
Mr. William Watties, of 500 acres, at a place called Pond Bluff, 
but not then settled. 

On the 2nd of June of the same year, the Commissioners made 
full return of the plans of the towns and townships which they 
had marked out, pursuant to a resolution in Council, on the 20th 
of March previous, on Waccamaw, Pedee, and Black Rivers, and 
were ordered to be paid accordingly. From the annexed plot or 
draft, Queensborough township appears to have been laid out on 
the Great Pedee, but a short distance from the mouth of Little 
Pedee River, embracing a part of what has since been known as 
Britton Neck, (a narrow strip of land between the two rivers), and 
extending also to the west side of the Pedee. But for this Plot, 
most unexpectedly found, the exact location of the township of 
Queensborough could not have been determined. It was probably 
a part of the return made by the Commissioners, or may have been 
the “Draft of the Rivers” accompanying the letter of Col. Pawley, 
to Council, of June 7th, 1739, in connection with the dividing line 
between Prince George and Prince Frederick’s, which has already 

been given. 

No settlements appear to have been made up to this time within 
the limits of Queensborough township. To encourage such settle¬ 
ments, generally, further action was taken by Council. 

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On the 14th of February, 1734, it was ordered “That the several 
persons who have laid out the several townships do prepare a rough 
draft, or plan of a town to be laid out in each township, containing 
about 800 acres, out of which a common of 300 acres, to be laid out 
in the back part and the remaining 500 acres to be laid out in half 
acre lots, to be at a convenient distance from the river, which rough 
draft or plan is to be laid before this Board for their consideration.” 

In accordance with these instructions, the draft or plan of a 
town in Queensborough Township was made, as appears from a 
notice in the Gazette, as late as June 3rd-10th, 1751, advertising 
lot number 64, in Queensborough Town. There is, however, no 
evidence remaining to show that the town, as such was ever 
settled. Its locations appears to have been on the west bank of the 
river. The inducements held out in connection with the town¬ 
ships appear to have led to a visit of some of the Welsh from 
Pennsylvania for the purpose of exploration and settlement, and 
the removal, very shortly after, of the colony which was destined 
to form so important an element in the history and progress of the 
region of the Upper Pedee. 

The emigration from Wales to Pennsylvania, from which this to 
Pedee proceeded, “had its beginning,” we are told in the following 
manner. “In the Spring of 1701, several Baptists in the counties 
of Pembroke and Cairmarthen, resolved to go to America; and as 
one of the company Thomas Griffith was a minister, they were ad¬ 
vised to be constituted a church. They took the advice and the in¬ 
strument of their confederation was in being in 1770, but is now 
lost or mislaid. The names of the confederates were as follows, 
viz: Thomas Griffith, Griffeth Nicholas, Evan Edmond, John Ed¬ 
ward, Elisha Thomas, Enoch Morgan, Richard Davis, James David, 
Elizabeth Griffeth, Lewis Edmond, Mary John, Mary Thomas, Eliza¬ 
beth Griffeth, Tennet David, Margaret Matthias, Tennet Morris. 
These sixteen persons which may be styled a church emigrant, met 
at Milford Haven in the month of June, 1701, embarked upon the 
good ship William and Mary; and on the 8th of September following, 
landed at Philadelphia. The brethren there treated them courteous¬ 
ly, and advised them to settle about Pennepec; thither they went 
and there continued about a year and a half, during which time 
their church increased from sixteen to thirty-seven. 

But, finding it inconvenient to tarry about Pennepec, they, in 
1703, took on land in Newcastle County from Messrs. Evans, Davis 
and Willis, who had purchased said Welsh tract from William 
Penn, containing upwards of 30,000 acres, and thither removed 
the same year, and built a little meeting house on the spot where 
the present stands. This house was a neat brick building, forty 
feet by thirty. 

The Welsh tract was first in the Province of Pennsylvania, after¬ 
wards, upon the change of boundaries, in the state of Delaware. 


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This will account for the fact that the Welsh were sometimes spoken 
of as being come from Pennsylvania, at other times from Dela¬ 
ware. 

Some of those who were members of the colony on Pedes mus: 
have followed the first emigration from Wales to Pennsylvania, 
*<s their names do not appear in the foregoing list. 

The first visit of the Welsh to Pedee appears to have been made 
in the latter part of 1735, or early in the following year. It led to 
a remarkable act of favor on the part of the Council to induce 
the colony to come. Wishing, on their arrival, to settle in a body, 
and be possessed of ample and exclusive privileges as to the 
occupancy of the soil, they petitioned the government that an ex¬ 
tensive tract of land might be appropriated to their sole benefit 
for a certain period. This appears from a message of the Lieuten¬ 
ant-Governor to the Lower House of Assembly, 2nd February, 
1737, in which he said: “The late Lieutenant-Governor ,with the 
advice of his Majesty’s Council, thought it would greatly tend to 
the service and strengthening of this Province, to grant the petition 
of several natives of the principality of Wales, in behalf of them¬ 
selves and others of their countrymen, who intend to settle in this 
Province from Great Britain and Pennsylvania, praying the Lands 
near the Forks above the Township on Pedee River might be re¬ 
served and set apart for their use, and Mr. John Ouldfield, being 
thought a very proper person, was employed for that service.” 

The petition here referred to bore date August 13th, 1736; and 
having been favorably received by the Council, his Majesty’s Sur¬ 
veyor-General, James H. St. John, Esq., was instructed to have 
the said tract laid out. Accordingly, he directed a precept to John 
Ouldfield, bearing date November 16th, 1736, to “admeasure and 
lay out, for the Welsh families that were to be imported to this 
Province, tract of land containing in the whole on hundred, seventy- 
three thousand, eight hundred and forty acres, situated and being 
in Craven County. Ten thousand acres being part thereof lying 
within the limits of the Township of Queensborough, on the north 
side of the Pedee River, the remainder of said tract lying on the 
south side of said river, and butting and bounding to the south-east 
on the reserved lands of the said Township of Queensborough, and 
all other sides on vacant lands as are supposed. 

The survey was made, and a plot thereof returned 29th November, 
1736, of which a copy is annexed. With reference to this plot, the 
Lieutenant-Governor sent a message, 2nd February, 1737, to the 
Lower House, saying: “I send it for your satisfaction and perusal, 
also his (Ouldfields) acct., which I think so very reasonable, hope 
you make provision to pay the same, as the sinking fund is so far 
short of answering the engagements already entered into.” 

House replied the next day as follows: “In answer to your 
Honour’s message just now received, with the account of Mr. John 


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Ouldfield, for surveying the Welsh tract of land on the Pedee 
River, beg leave to inform your Honour that we have perused the 
said account, and we are very much concerned to find, as the 
account is so very moderate and reasonable, that there should not 
be money sufficient in the Township Fund to discharge it. But we 
hope your Honour will concur with us in opinion, that it is by no 
means necessary, or would be justifiable in us to Tax our Constitu¬ 
ents to pay any such expense, especially as it may be so much more 
justly and reasonably done by the duty on Negroes, should it be 
thought proper by your Honour, in conjunction with the two 
Houses of Assembly, to revise and continue that Duty, without 
which we cannot forsee any method by which this account, or any 
other of the same sort, can with justice to the people of this prov¬ 
ince, be provided for. 

By order of the House, 

CHARLES PINCKNEY, Speaker. 

Feb. 3rd, 1737-8. 

The tract thus surveyed and extending up the river but a short 
distance above Mars Bluff, seems not to have been adapted to the 
wants of the Welsh, or to have been a compliance by the Council 
with their petition of the August previous, as was intended. They 
consequently petitioned again for such an extension of the tract 
as would answer all their purposes, and enable them to select their 
lands to advantage. Their request was favorably regarded, as ap¬ 
pears from the following proclamation: “By the Hon. Thomas 
Broughton, Esq., Lieutenant-Governor, and Oommander-in-Chief 
in and over his Majesty’s Province of South Carolina. 

“Whereas, I have, this day received information in Council, from 
Daniel James, that the lands which David Lewis, Samuel Wild, and 
the said Daniel James, prayed for in their petition of 13th of August 
last, to be set apart for the Welsh families mentioned therein, were 
the vacant lands they viewed, and desired, might be reserved for 
them, lying on each side of Great Pedee River, and up to the main 
branches thereof, and that the lands set forth, and prescribed in the 
order of Council of the 21st January last, are not the lands they 
desired, and were assigned them agreeable to the said petition; nor 
will these lands suit their intention of planting Hemp and Flax; and 
whereas, I have also received information from the said Daniel 
James, that several of the said families, on the encouragement they 
had from the first Order of Council, have sold their possessions in 
Pennsylvania some being arrived, and others on their way to the 
Province, I have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice 
and consent of his Majesty’s Hon. Council, to issue this, my Proc¬ 
lamation to give notice, that I have (with the advice and consent 
aforesaid) refused the said last order of Council on the 21st of 
January, last and confirmed the said first order of the 13th of 
August; and have ordered that the lines be run parallel, as near as 


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may be, with the course of Great Pedee River; and further to give 
notice, that the Surveyor General is ordered and directed to in¬ 
struct his Deputies not to survey, (for any other persons than the 
said Welsh people) any more of the said lands above Pedee Town¬ 
ship, lying within eight miles on each side of the said river, and 
so up to the Branches aforesaid. Given under my hand and the 
Great Seal of this his Majesty’s Province, this 8th day of Feb¬ 
ruary, in the 10th year of his Majesty’s reign, Annoque Domini, 
1737.” 

This extension of the Welsh Tract up the Pedee to the two main 
branches thereof, gave the infant Colony exclusive privileges over 
a large territory, embracing for more than one hundred miles by 
the course of the river, its rich alluvial bottom, and a valuable 
class of lands in proximity to the swamp. The two main branches 
referred to, must have been the Yadkin and Uwhare, or Yadkin 
and Rocky Rivers—most probably the latter; in either case, a point 
(their junction) something considerably above the present boundary 
line between South and North Carolina—the Rocky and Yadkin 
Rivers uniting twenty-five miles above the said state lines, and the 
Yadkin and Uwhare not less than fifty. With such inducements to 
emigrate to the Pedee the Welsh were not slow in making their 
way to the Province. The first visit of exploration by a few of 
their number was made not later than the spring of 1736. They 
appear, however, to have been preceeded by some other settlers, 
the first name of which any record has been found was Joseph 
Dopson. He was a grantee of 130 acres of land in what was after¬ 
wards the Welsh tract, as early as the 11th May, 1733. 

This fact appears in a petition to Council by Jacob Kolb in 1753, 
for the said land, the Petitioner stating therein that the said grant 
was still in the Surveyor-General’s Office. The name of Dopson 
seems to have disappeared not long after from the country. He 
may have been a squatter, or merely in search of land, not making 
any permanent settlement. The earliest grants on the west side 
of the river, in the upper part of what is now Darlington District, 
go back to the year 1734. Of the names of the grantees, no record, 
perhaps remains. Lands were surveyed for Richard Barrow in what 
was called, soon after, the Welsh Neck, as early as January, 1736. 
Nothing is known of him, the name soon after having disappeared 
from this region. This was the case with many other of the 
first comers. They probably belonged to that class of people who 
live on the outskirts of civilization, leading the way as hunters, 
and keeping in the van of permanent settlers. They are not un- 
frequently men of enterprise, but with a roving disposition, and 
distaste for those wholesome restraints which society imposes on 
its members. Exploring the way that others may follow, they have 
often rendered essential service in the settlement of new regions, 
without being generally appreceiated however, or taking any place, 


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as they have deserved, in the history of man. Thus it was with 
many, whose names appeared in the first record, only to be known 
for a short time afterward. 

In 1736, or early in the following year, a company of the Welsh 
settled on Cat Fish, a stream in what is now Marion District, in the 
tract first assigned them. Among these were Jenkin and Owen 
David. They remained there a short time, and then removed higher 
up the river to the neighborhood of the Welsh Neck. As appears 
from the petition which led to the extension of the Welsh Tract 
much above its original boundary, the lands on the upper Pedee 
seems to have suited their agricultural purposes better, being well 
adapted also to settlements immediately contiguous to the river. 
To that rich and compact body of land, embraced in a bend of the 
river, opposite the present village of Society Hill, and called from 
the early period, the “Welsh Neck,” the attention of these prudent 
settlers appears from the first to have been directed. And there 
they began to gather in a body. The “Welsh Neck” extended from 
“Crooked Creek” above, (on its outer line) to the Red Bluff below, 
a distance of about six miles, embracing the rich lands of the swamp, 
several miles across. During the Revolution, or about a generation 
after the first settlement, the “Company” which mustered at the 
McAll old field, numbered from 130 to 140, all of them said to be 
Welsh. Between the years 1736 and 1746 almost all the lands in 
the Welsh Neck were granted. By the latter part of 1737 most of 
the families from Pennsylvania had arrived, and the infant colony 
began to assume an organized and permanent character. Under its 
leader, James James, Esq., were laid the foundations of future 
growth and prosperity. Mr. James was possessed of larger means 
than any of his companions and the most prominent individual 
among them. 

At this time a respectable proportion of the colony consisted of 
the following persons, viz: James James and wife, Philip James 
and wife, Daniel Devonald and wife, Abel James and wife, Daniel 
James and wife, Thomas Evans and wife, John Jones and wife, 
Thomas Harry and wife, Daniel Harry and wife, John Harry and 
wife, Samuel Wilde and wife, Samuel Evans and wife, Griffith Jones 
and wife, David Jones and wife, Thomas Jones and wife. 

There were also others whose names appear at the same period, 
viz:: Thomas James, Griffith John, William James, John New¬ 
berry, Evan Harry, Henry Oldacre, Hasker Newberry, William 
Evnon, James Roger, David James, Daniel Dousnal, Samuel Sarance 
(Sorrency and DeSorrency, as it was sometimes written), Evan 
Vaughn, William Tarell (Terrell). 

The first mentioned company, were in January, 1738, “organized 
into a society of the Baptist faith,” and erected a house of worship 
on the east bank of the river, a short distance above the ferry. 

There they long continued to worship God after the manner of 


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their fathers, and in that consecrated spot, where some monumental 
remains are yet to be seen, their dead repose, awaiting the last 
summons. This party with others appear to have moved in a body 
from the Welsh Tract in Pennsylvania and Delaware to the Pedee 
during the previous year if not a little earlier. Many sore lets 
and hindrances awaited the progress of their settlements. 

Of one of these grievances, complaint was made to the Govern¬ 
ment, as appears from the following message, sent by the Upper 
House or Council, January 26th, 1737, to the Commons House of 
Assembly: 

“Mr. Speaker and gentlemen: Some of the Welsh settlers on 
Pedee have lately complained to me that they have sufficint rason 
to believe that the Indians will molest and disturb them in settling 
the lands run out for the Welsh, intimating that one, Thompson, a 
trader, has bought a great quantity of that tract, and pretends to 
hold it by an Indian right, which, as I apprehend this practice may 
attend with fatal consequences, I desire you appoint a committee 
of your House to join a committee of his Majesty’s Council, to 
consider of the most effectual method to prevent any private con¬ 
tracts with Indians for the land. 

WM. BULL.” 

A few days after, Committees were appointed to consider the 
subject, and measures were adopted to prevent such difficulties in 
the future. 

The tide of emigration had now set in ,and constant additions 
were made to the population on the Pedee. “At a Council held at 
Ashley Ferry, September 16th, 1738, the Hon. Wm. Bull, President, 
signed the following grants for land in Queensborough Township, 
viz. 

Jacob Buckholt, 250 acres. 

Jeremiah Fickling, 450 acres. 

Richard Thompson, 400 acres. 

Joseph Jolly, 600 acres. 

The Government continued to manifest a due concern for fresh 
accessions to the Welsh population. 

In the Council Chamber, 11th May, 1739, it was ordered, “That 
the term for reserving the Welsh Tract upon Pedee River for the 
sole benefit of the Welsh and Pennsylvania, be prolonged for the 
space of two years from the expiration thereof, in the month of 
August next, and all persons are required to take Notice thereof 
at their Peril. By order of his Honour, the Lieut.-Governor, and his 
Majesty’s Hon. Council. 

“ALEX R. CRAMAHE, C. C.” 

This was a liberal policy on the part of the government, and an 
act of great favor to the Welsh. 

The spirit of speculation began to show itself as to landed estate 
even at this early period. On the 25th of May, 1739, 1,000 acres 


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were advertised in Queensborough Township, but by whom does 
not appear. 

The removal of the Welsh from Pennsylvania and Delaware, and 
the reports made to their countrymen in Wales, seem to have 
excited a spirit of emigration thither from that country. The Colo¬ 
nial Authorities, having received some tidings of this kind, held out 
additional inducements to them to come over. The following an¬ 
nouncement was made in the “Gazette” of the 7th and 14th July, 
1739. “In Council, 7th day of July, 1739. There being great reason 
to believe that many poor people of the Principality of Wales would 
remove into this Province, provided they could be sure of having 
the same bounty (Over and above the Land allowed by his 
Majesty) as other poor Protestants have heretofore had who have 
become settlers in his Majesty’s Township. Resolved, that the sum 
of six thousands pounds shall be reserved out of the Township 
Fund, to be appropriated as a Bounty to the first two hundred peo¬ 
ple above twelve years of age (two under twelve years of age to be 
deemed as one) who shall arrive here from the Principality of Wales, 
and become settlers upon the Welsh Tract upon Pedee, within the 
space of Two Years from hence, the said bounty to be proportioned 
as follows, viz: 

“To each head above twelve years of age, twelve bushels of corn, 
one barrel of beef, fifty wt. of pork, one hundred wt. of rice, one 
bushel of salt. 

“To each male above twelve years of age, also, one axe, one 
broad hoe, one cow and calf, and one young sow, and the charge of. 
measuring out and the fifty acres of land per head allowed by his 
Majesty. A true copy. 

“ALEXANDER CRAMAHE, C. C.” 

The inducements here offered are supposed to have encouraged 
and increased the emigration direct from Wales. By the year 1746, 
already remarked, almost all the lands in the Welsh Neck w r ere 
granted, having been taken up exclusively by the Welsh. 

The number of settlers had largely increased between 1740 and 
1743. The following list of names and the quantities of land, re¬ 
spectively allotted, with the dates of entries, will convey some idea 
of the progress made down to the year 1743. The list did not em¬ 
brace the names of all who had arrived, but only of those who had 
neglected to comply with the requirements of the law respecting 
the Township Settlers, and whose neglect operated to the prejudice 
of others who might wish to come in. It is taken from the “Ga¬ 
zette” of August, 1743. 

A list of Township Plots (on the Bounty) in the Surveyor-Gener¬ 
al’s Office, August 15th, 1743: 


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QUEENSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP. 

Thomas James, 650 acres, October 3rd, 1738. 
Griffeth Jones, 300 acres, October 4th, 1738. 
Griffeth John, 100 acres, September 1st, 1738. 
William James, 400 acres, September 1st, 1738. 
John Newberry, 350 acres, September 2nd, 1738. 
Henry Oldacre, 50 acres, September 4th, 1738. 
Hasker Newberry, 300 acres, September 5th, 1738. 
Evan Harry, 100 acres, September 30th, 1738. 

a* Eynon, 1300 acres, August 23rd, 1738. 
James Roger, 50 acres, August 26th, 1738. 

David James, 400 acres, August 27th, 1738. 
Thomas Evans, 400 acres, August 27th, 1738. 
Daniel Dousnal, 200 acres, August 27th, 1738. 
John Jones, 250 acres, August 28th, 1738. 

Sam’l. Sarance, 100 acres, August 29th, 1738. 
Richard Barrow, 150 acres, August 29th, 1738. 
Evan Vaughn, 350 acres, August 30th, 1738. 

Abel James, 300 acres, August 31st, 1738. 

William Tarell, 200 acres, August 31st, 1738. 
Thomas Walley, 50 acres, May 18th, 1740. 

Philip James, 250 acres, May 21st, 1740. 

Sampson Thomas, 400 acres, May 23rd, 1740. 
Jacob Buckles, 250 acres, May 24th, 1740. 

Peter Kishley, 400 acres, June 2nd, 1740. 

John Evans, 200 acres, February 6th, 1740. 

John Newberry, 100 acres, November 22nd, 1741. 
Wm. Tarell, 100 acres, December 9th, 1741. 
Thomas Evans, 250 acres, December 10th, 1741. 
Thomas Evans, 75 acres, December 14th, 1741. 
Abel Evans, 100 acres, December 11th, 1741. 

John Evans, 100 acres, December 11th, 1741. 

Mary Evans, 300 acres, December 13th, 1741. 

John Jones, 100 acres, December 1st, 1741. 
Jeremiah Rowell, 150 acres, December 16th, 1741. 
James Rowland, 150 acres, December 14th, 1741. 
Evan Vaughn, 100 acres, December 17th, 1741. 
John Westfield, 300 acres, December 17th, 1741. 
Thomas Elleby, 250 acres, December 17th, 1741. 
Simon Parsons, 100 acres, December 18th, 1741. 
John Carter, 100 acres, December 22nd, 1741. 

Wm. Evans, 50 acres, December 23rd, 1741. 

Job Edwards, 200 acres, December 28th, 1741. 
Daniel James, 350 acres, December 24th, 1742. 
John Jones, 500 acres, December 24th, 1742. 
David Harry, 125 acres, December 23rd, 1742. 
David Harry, 125 acres, December 23rd, 1742. 


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Philip James, 100 acres, December 27th, 1742. 

Philip Douglas, 300 acres, December 29th, 1742. 

William Carey, 300 acres, December 31st, 1742. 

Mary Evans, 200 acres, January 1st, 1743. 

David Malahan, 150 acres, January 4th, 1743. 

Thomas Moses, 220 acres, January 5th, 1743. 

William Jones, 400 acres, January 5th, 1743. 

Nicholas Rogers, 350 acres, January 6th, 1743. 

Thomas Evans, 100 acres, January 15th, 1743. 

Thomas Evans, 125 acres, January 28th, 1743. 

William James, 200 acres, January 29th, 1743. 

“Upon perusing and considering the Memorial of George Hunter, 
Esq., Surveyor-General, relating to several plots of land returned 
into and now lying in the office of the said Surveyor-General, and 
which have remained in the said office for many years, without any 
applications from the persons in whose names the same are run, 
to have them taken out of the said office, whereby other persons are 
prevented from taking up the said lands, and becoming tenants to his 
Majesty for the same: It is ordered that the said list be published 
in the Gazette, to the intent that the several persons interested in 
or claiming the same may apply for, and take out the said plots, on 
or before the 1st day of January next; and in case of their neglect¬ 
ing so to do, their failure therein will be taken as a disclaimer of 
their rights to the said lands; and the same lands may and shall be 
granted to any other persons who shall duly apply for the same. 
A true copy. 

“ALEXANDER GORDON, C. C.” 

The neglect of most or all of those mentioned in the forgeonig 
list to take out their plots, etc., may doubtless be owing to the fact 
that they were too poor to do so, or that the lands first granted 
were in the lower part of the Welsh Tract, and taken out before 
its extension; and having determined to go higher up the river, some 
of them may have abandoned their claims below, where their places 
were soon taken by others. 

In common with other settlers, the Welsh had many difficulties to 
contend against. The means of most of them were, no doubt, ex¬ 
hausted by the expense of the removal to Pedee. After their arrival, 
the distance from Charlestown, the seat of Government, where all 
public business had to be transacted, perplexed them no little. 
The following extracts from the Council Journals will show the 
mode of proceeding with reference to land, and the sore extremities 
to which these poor settlers were often driven. 

“In Council Chambr, January 26th, 1742-43. Read the Petition 
of part of the Inhabitants of the Wesh Tract, as also the Petition 
of Sam Sorrency, as follows, viz: To the Hon. Wm. Bull, Lieuten¬ 
ant-Governor and Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty’s Province of 
S. C., and to the rest of the Hon. Members of his Majesty’s Council. 


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The petition of Samuel Sorreney humbly showeth, that your 
J? e 1 ^ 1 /?i ier arrival in this Province obtained a warrant 

-or 100 acres of land, to be laid out in the Welsh Tract, whereon I 
now ive. That your petitioner hath since two children come from 
JI ennsylvama to this place, which I have made oath of before Wm. 

ames, Esq., who informs me that it will not do without my proving 
my right in the Council Chamber; but as I am but low in the world, 
and live at so great a distance from Charlestown, and not having a 
horse to ride nor money to bear my expenses, and the Bearer, 
homas Bowen, can prove, if need be, that I have such children— 
your petitioner therefore humbly prays your Honours to take my 
case into consideration, and grant me a warrant for 100 acres of his 
Majesty s land, to be laid out in the Welsh Tract, and your peti¬ 
tioner, as in duty bound, etc. 

The above and Samuel James swore to his family right before 
Wm. James, Esq., one of his Majesty’s Justices assigned to keep 
the peace of Craven County aforesaid. The Prayer of said petition 
was granted, and it was ordered, that Mr. Secretary Hammerton 
do prepare a warrant accordingly. 

Read also the petition of Daniel M’Daniel, for a warrant of 
100 acres, for himself and wife, to be laid out in the Welsh Tract, 
which was granted. 

“Read also the petition of several other inhabitants of the Welsh 
Tract, as follows: 

“The petition of part of the inhabitants of the Welsh Tract 
humbly showeth: That we have left Pennsylvania and have trans¬ 
ported ourselves to this Province by the encouragement given to 
settle this aforesaid tract of land; but as some of us had our lands 
run out, and the plots put into the Surveyor-General’s office four 
years ago, and as we are so por that we cannt get money to pay 
the charge of surveying and granting it, has discouraged many 
from coming over; and we are afraid the discouragement being so 
great, we are not being sure of our grants, by reason of our poverty, 
that some that have come over will return from us again. So we, 
your humble petitioners, hope your Honor and Honorables will take 
it into your serious consideration, what satisfaction it is to every 
man to have his titles to land secure, and will fulfill the encourage¬ 
ment given us that we should have our lands granted us free from 
all charge of surveying and granting; and, as we are in duty bound, 
we shall ever pray, etc. 

“Philip James, Jeremiah Rowell, Philip Douglass, Daniel Devon- 
ald, David Harry, Thos. Evans, Thos. Moses, Mary Evans, Jobe 
Edwards, Nathan Evans, Abel James, Thos. Evans, John Evans, 
John Evans, John Carter, Wm. Kirby, Griffith John, Danl. Hone- 
horn, Walter Downe, David James, Peter Roblyn, Creen Vaughn, 
iNicholas Rogers, Simon Parsons, David Lewis, Sami. Sorreney, 
Wm. Terrell, John Jones, Abel Evans, Wm. James. 


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“Whereupon, it having been represented to his Hon. the Lieut.- 
Governor in Council, that several families of Welsh that had in¬ 
tended to become settlers in the whole tract on Pedee River, in this 
Province, have, as it was apprehended, been prevented from coming 
into this Province from the dangers arising from the present war 
with Spain, and that by the advices received from Pennsylvania, 
several of the said Welsh families were expected to arrive here the 
next year; but as the time for reserving the Welsh Tract would 
expire in the month of August next, it was prayed that the said 
term might be further enlarged. The same was considered, and 
it was ordered by his Honor, the Lieut.-Governor, by the advice 
of his Majesty’s Council, that the said term be enlarged two years 
from the expiration of the said present term; of which all persons 
concerned are to take notice. 

“And upon reading and considering the petition of Philip James, 
Abel James, Thomas Evans, and others, settlers in the whole tract, 
praying that the charge of surveying and granting their lands 
might be all defrayed to them; it was the opinion of the Board, 
upon considering the Prayer of the petition, as it appeared to the 
Board that they had desired lands only to be reserved for a term 
to them, which was accordingly done, and which term had been 
further enlarged for their benefit, but was not to have their survey 
of land carried through the offices at the public expense, that being 
only for such Welsh as should come from the Principality of Wales 
—that, as this Prayer of the petitioners is what they had not before 
asked, nor had any reason to expect from this Government, it could 
not be regularly granted; but, for a further encouragement of the 
settlers of the said tract, it was the opinion of the Board, and so 
ordered, that for the first twenty barrels of good and merchant¬ 
able white flour, of 2,000-lbs. weight net each, which shall be made 
in the said tract, and brought to the markets in Charlestown, there 
shall be paid to the makers thereof, upon proof of its being bona 
fide the produce of the said tract, a bounty of five pounds currency 
for each barrel. Ordered, that the Clerk of this Board give a copy 
of the above minute to the petitioners, and the same to the Com¬ 
missary.” 

The exclusive privileges of the Welsh in the large tract appro¬ 
priated to them, led, in some instances, to difficulties either with 
those who came before them, thus acquiring the right of prior 
occupancy of the soil, though not having secured a legal title, or 
with others, who afterwards were allowed to settle among them, 
but subsequently objected to as neighbors by the Welsh. The 
latter were doubtless clannish in their feelings, and unwilling to 
encourage strangers to come among them. Of the first class 
mentioned, was Francis Young, one of the earliest settlers within 
the limits of the upper portion of the Welsh Tract of whom any 
remains. He is supposed to have emigrated from Ireland. In the 


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Council Journal, 9th November, 1743, is this entry: “Francis 
Young petitioned for 150 acres of land in the Welsh*’Tract on the 
south side of the river, bounding between John Thomas’ line and 
one Vaughn s land; and the petitioner at the same time produced 
a certificate of his having lived there before the settlement of tho 
Welsh, signed by two Justices of the Peace in that place. He ap¬ 
peared in person, and his petition was granted. 

Another settler, about the same time, the first of a name which 
has since been well known on the Pedee, was James Galespy. He 
made a similar application, but was not so fortunate, for a time, 
at least, as to the result. 

On the same day, 9th November, 1743, “was read the petition 
of James Galespy, showing that the petitioner, having six persons 
in family, for whom as yet, he has not had any lands assigned him, 
humbly prays that a warrant of survey for 300 acres be granted 
him in the Welsh Tract. But, not appearing to swear to his family 
right, his petition was ordered to lie on the table.” 

At the same time, Henry Roach made a similar application for 
100 acres of land in the Welsh Tract; but not appearing to be a 
Welshman, or of Welsh extract, the consideration of his case was 
postponed. James Galespy came from the North of Ireland. He 
was a man of energy and enterprise. In connection with General 
Christopher Gadsden of Charlestown, he was engaged in boating 
on the Pedee many years before the Revolution, and is believed to 
have been the first person who ever brought a boat to Cheraw. 
The difficulty with the Welsh doubtless led to his removal higher 
up the river, to the neighborhood of the present town of Cheraw. 
He settled on the west side of the river, a short distance below the 
town, and entered on a successful career as a trader. He mar¬ 
ried a daughter of Francis Young. James Galespy died before the 
Revolution. He left two sons to inherit his name, and two 
daughters. 

The Welsh did not extend their settlements much, if any, above 
the mouth of Crooked Creek, or the upper limits of the Welsh 
Neck. Of those who were induced to enter upon the Welsh Tract 
was Thomas Elerby, the first of that name who emigrated to the 
Pedee. He came soon after the first of the Welsh, as appears from 
the following record of Council: “July 5th, 1742. Read the peti¬ 
tion of Thomas Elerby, setin gforth that he and his family, con¬ 
sisting of eleven persons, came from Virginia about five years past, 
and settled and cleared land near Pedee River, and obtained a 
warrant for his family right; but happened to be within the limits 
of the Welsh Tract and at a convenient place to fix a water-mill. 
When the Welsh inhabitants came to settle, above four years past, 
one Daniel James persuaded the petitioner to remove peaceably 
from that place by the run of water, and give the petitioner and his 
family liberty to settle and cultivate any other vacant land whinh 

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lie should find within the limits of the Welsh Tract; and did also 
himself get a special warrant for 250 acres of land, which is run out 
for the petitioner and returned; whereupon he begs for a grant for 
the same, having lived ever since thereon, and now wants more 
land in the same, or adjoining thereto, to cultivate and settle, his 
family being increased to twenty and two persons, he having six 
persons lately purchased or born, for which as yet, he has had no 
warrant. He therefore prays for a warrant of survey for laying 
out 3,000 acres of vacant land, and a special warrant of survey for 
running out 550 acres of vacant land more, within the limits of the 
said Welsh Tract, in the lieu of his common warrant. Resolved; 
that the consideration of the said petition be deferred until the 
petitioner appear personally before the Board. Mr. Elerby was 
doubtless successful in the end, as he remained in that neighbor¬ 
hood and became the owner of extensive landed possessions, a large 
portion of which has remained in the family to the present day. 
John Elerby, a brother of Thomas, came with him to Pedee, and 
settled on the east side of the river. He either returned to Vir¬ 
ginia, or removed elsewhere at an early period. Thomas Elrby 
brought a good property with him, and was probably the first 
slaveholder on the Upper Pedee. Some years prior to the Revo¬ 
lution he had a large number—at least for that day. This family 
emigrated from England to Virginia. The name is still known in 
England, and is spelt as it appears in our early records. 

Not long afterwards, however, as was often the case, it was 
changed to its present form “Ellebre,” Thomas Elerby, who mar¬ 
ried, as already stated, Obedience Gillespie, had two sons, Thomas 
and William, from whom the extensive family connection on the 
Pedee have descended. Of the Evans, who were among the Welsh 
settlers, a branch of the family went first, or soon after their ar¬ 
rival removed, to what is now Marion District. From Thomas and 
Samuel Evans, who were members of the Welsh Colony, the ex¬ 
tensive connection in Darlington and Chesterfield Districts de¬ 
scended. 

With the main body of the Welsh, or soon after came John 
Brown. He was born near Burlington, New Jersey, and brought 
up at Frankfort, in the neighborhood of Philadelphia. Mr. Brown 
was ordained May 7th, 1750, and suceeded the Rev. Philip James 
in the charge of the Welsh Neck Church, but did not continue long 
in that position. After this he continued to preach the gospel in 
different places until his death. 

It is supposed that he was its founder, and gave name to the old 
Brownsville community, twenty miles lower down on the east side 
of the river. 

About the years 1738-39, Robert Williams, then a. young man, 
emigrated to Pedee. He was born at Northampton, North Carolina, 
in 1717. Mr. Williams settled on the west side of the river, opposite 


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the lower part of the Welsh Neck and became, eventually, the owner 
ot a large landed estate in this neighborhood, most of which has 
remained m the family since. 

17 °Ai h ! ni as orda med at the Welsh Neck, and became the 
pastor of that Church, retaining the position, however, but a short 
time afterwards. Robert Williams had two children—a daughter 
who married Arthur Hart, and afterwards, Moses Murfee; and a 
son David WiHiams. The latter was born on Pedee, February 1st, 
1739, received his education in Charlestown, and after a brief 
but amiable and useful career, died January 1st, 1776. He mar¬ 
ried a sister of Arthur Hart, and the fruits of this marriage were 
two children—a daughter, Mary Ann, and a son, David Rogerson 
who subsequently became distinguished as a member of Congress 
from the Pedee District, and Governor of South Carolina. 

Robert Williams died April 8th, 1788, and had the following 
character given him: “He was kind to the poor, and remarkably 
so to the afflicted; a man of excellent natural parts, and a minister 
who preached the gospel to the edification and comfort of souls.” 

Another name which appears among the grantees of land in the 
Welsh Neck, in 1743, was Nicholas Rogers. He was one of the 
Welsh settlers, and died in 1759. He left a son, Benjamin, the 
father of the late Colonel Benjamin Rogers, of Marlborough. 

Allusion has been made to the course pursued by the Welsh, with 
reference to others coming in among them. The feeling was a 
natural one, and under the circumstances, in such a chaotic state 
of society, when people of different nations, and many of them 
doubtless of bad character, were flocking in as squatters and traders, 
not to be condemned. The subsequent history of their colony’ 
strongly and peculiarly marked as it was in all the elements of sub¬ 
stantial growth and virtuous progress, will be found to have fully 
justified their exclusive policy. They planted themselves, in most 
instances immediately on the river, and made locations of lands in 
small parcels. 

The country being in a wilderness state, their position isolated, 
and their means limited, they selected such quantities of land as 
suited their present necessities, influenced also, to some extent, by 
consideration of compactness, which gratified their social propensi¬ 
ties, and enables them besides to concentrate against the sudden 
incursions of the Indians, by whom they were surrounded. Here, 
on a virgin soil, they peacefully pursued their agricultural em¬ 
ployments, being richly rewarded for the common toils, and hard¬ 
ships endured. 

In their new and yet wilderness home, drawn together more 
closely than by the common ties of friendship and of blood, sur¬ 
rounded by common dangers, against which they vigilently guarded, 
with common wants and necessities sufficiently supplied, and meet¬ 
ing weekly around one consecrated altar to worship the God of 


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their fathers, a more perfect unity, or virtuous and manly life can 
scarcely be conceived. 

Such was the scene presented by this infant band of brothers in 
the early days of their history; with no court of justice in their 
midst to which conflicting claims and angry disputes might be 
referred, and no frowning gaol for the reception of the criminal. 
Nor were they needed. Few contentions, probably, were known, 
and the voice of society, though newly formed in this southern 
home, was potent enough to silence the voice of the blasphemer and 
make the evil-minded man pause in his ways. 

Simplicity of character appears to have been one of the most 
marked traits of this people—a virtue which has been transmitted, 
through succeeding times, to their descendants. They were open 
and sincere, making no profession of feeling, which did not exist. 

For sobriety and moderation, also, with what was more essential 
as the foundation of all virtue, a deep religious feeling, they were 
distinguished. These virtues were strongly impressed upon the 
community they established, presenting in subsequent times a strik¬ 
ing contrast to some other neighborhoods on the Pedee, where 
dissipation and irreligion so much prevailed. The Welsh brought 
with them to a new country those marked features for which their 
ancestors had been noted long before. The Welsh are said to have 
been more jealous of their liberties than even the English, and far 
more irascible, though their jealousy soon abated. They were, from 
an early period, fond of carrying back their pedigrees to the most 
remote antiquity, and some of their manuscripts they make to be 
coeval with the Incarnation. 

But few relics remain among the descendants of the early Welsh 
settlers on the Pedee. 

Intermingled, as they subsequently became with other races, 
their national peculiarities, except in a few instances of striking 
constitutional descent, gradually disappeared. 

And of their names, as connected with the localities they in¬ 
habited, but a memorial is here and there left to tell of the first 
cultivators of the soil. 


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St. David’s Society, Cheraw, S. C. 


The St. David’s Society, which had been suspended during the 
latter years of the war, was now revived, and immediately took 
rank among the most distinguished schools of learning in the state. 

From its walls, in subsequent years, went forth those who were to 
fill the highest positions of usefulness and distinction in Carolina. 

The following notice appeared in The South Carolina Gazette and 
Advertiser of August 13th, 1785. 

“The St. David Society met on the 23rd ultimo, at Greenville, 
in the District of Cheraw, and chose the following gentlemen as 
officers for the year then commencing: James P. Wilson, Esq., Presi¬ 
dent; William DeWitt, Esq., Vice-President; Thomas Powe, Esq., 
Treasurer, and Evander M’lver, Secretary. They also appointed 
the following gentlemen a committee to superintend the erection 
of suitable buildings, engage tutors, etc., Thomas Powe and William 
DeWitt, Esqrs., Rev. Edmond Botsford, Mr. Abel Edwards, and 
Mr. Eander M’lver. This laudable society, formed for the benev¬ 
olent purpose of erecting an academy, was instituted in the year 
1778; but owing to the calamities of the late war, had been en¬ 
tirely neglected. However, we hope for its happy revival, and the 
very liberal subscriptions already made, that it will soon flourish, 
and that their intended plans will be prosecuted and carried into 
effect.” In the following year William Pegues, Esq., was elected 
President; Samuel Wilds, Treasurer, and Enoch Evans, Senr., Sec¬ 
retary, which offices the two latter continued to hold for years 

afterwards. . 

Andrew M’Culley took charge of the academy m the early part 

of 1786, and taught until October of the following year. Of Mr. 
M’Culley nothing more is known than that he appears to have- 
discharged his duties to the satisfaction of the society. He was 
succeeded for a short time by Ezekiel Hitchcock, who had prabably 


been his assistant. , . . ir7QQ 

Eli Kin<>■ was principal for three years, beginning with 1/88, 

He was from New England, and a friend of Thomas Park, who 
succeeded him in 1791. Samuel Wilds assisted Mr. King m 1788, 
and afterwards, for a time, the Principal. Mr. King after giving 
up the school, embarked in mercantile pursuits. Thomas Park had 
charge of St. David’s from 1791 to 1800. About that time he 
engaged with Mr. King in business. Better fitted, however for 
teaching than merchandising, their enterprise proved a failure. 
Mr Park then took charge of the academy at Ebenezer, in the 
lower part of Darlington, and was transferred from that position, 
upon the organization of the South Carolina College to the ro- 
fessorship of Languages, having been elected m 1806. Thei^ he 
continued in the uninterrupted discharge of duty until 1834-35. He 



was then elected Treasurer and Librarian of the College, and faith¬ 
fully discharged the duties of these offices until his death in 1844, 
in the 79th year of his age. Mr. Park was a native of Uxbridge, 
Mass., and graduated at Brown University, Providence, R. I., in 
1791. In the latter part of that year he came to the Pedee. With¬ 
out experience as a teacher, but with a well trained mind, correct 
scholarship particularly in the ancient classics, and conscientious 
devotion to duty never surpassed, he entered at once upon that 
highly useful and most successful career as a teacher of youth, 
which was only to terminate with his declining strength more than 
forty years afterwards. With neither genius nor learning, few 
men did more than Thomas Park for the education of the youth of 
Carolina and no one ever retired from a position more difficult to 
fill, whether in an academy or college, with a larger share of the 
confidence and affection of those with whom he had been con¬ 
nected. A just and beautiful tribute has been paid to his character 
and services by Prof. LaBorde in his history of The South Carolina 
College. It was a tribute richly deserved, and touchingly rendered 
by the writer of that work. Mr. Park was succeeded in St. Davids’ 
by the Rev. Frame Wood, who continued in charge until 1804. He 
was followed by Enoch Hanford in 1804-5, and the latter by Elias 
Jones in 1806-7. 

After the revival of St. David’s in 1785, it continued to flourish. 
Public examinations were held annually, and committee appointed 
to act on such occasions. The exhibitions of the pupils excited 
much interest in the country around for a considerable distance, and 
were numerously attended. The records of its early history would 
serve as a model for many of the academys of more recent times, 
which, the more pretentious, are not so thoroughly conducted as 
was this noted school of old. 

In 1785, an Act was passed by the Legislature, providing that 
all the confiscated property to which the State was then entitled 
in The Circuit Court, District of Cheraws, as also all the property 
already escheated, or which might thereafter escheat, should be 
invested in the incorporated society of St. Davids. 

Death had already made sad havoc among the members of the 
society. Between the years 1780 and 1788, the following, as entered 
on the records, had died, viz: General Alexander M’Tntosh, Colonel 
Thomas Lide, Abel Wilds, William Terrell, Thomas Evans, sen., 
Joshua Edwards, Colonel Abel Kolb, Thomas James, Captain Philip 
Pledger, Richard Hodge, Charles Mason, Joshua Terrell, Captain 
Edward Jones, Philip Singleton, William Blassingame, Rev. John 
Conner, Adam Cusack, Hugh Jones, Benjamin Williamson, Captain 
Edward Irby, Charles Irby, Captain George King, Captain Simon 
Connell, and John Thompson. 

The following members were dismissed from the society at their 
own request, for the most part, doubtless, because of the distance 


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at which they lived, rendering it inconvenient to attend the meet¬ 
ings: May 3rd, 1787, Benjamin Rogers, Colonel George Hicks, 
Colonel Lemuel Benton, Captain William Pegnes; May 1st, 1788: 
Major Robert Lide, Captain Thomas Ellerbe, William Ellerbe, Cap¬ 
tain Benjamin Hicks, Josiah Evans; May 6th, 1790: Alexander 
Craig, David Roach, Jesse Wilds; June 18th, 1791: William Thomas; 
August 6th, 1792: Rev. Evan Pugh, and Major John Kimbrough. 

The following were members after 1788: Daniel Sparks, Rev. 
Elhanan Winchester, William DeWitt, Rev. Evan Pugh, Nathaniel 
Saunders, John Hodge, Abel Edwards, Thomas Powe, John O’Neal, 
William Thomas, Jeremiah Brown, John Kimbrough, Peter Allston, 
Charles Gee, Claudius Pegues, John Blassingame, John McCall, 
iDavid Roach, Jethro Moore, Alexander Craig, Robert Gibson, 
Moses Pearson, Rev. Edmond Botsford, Morgan Brown, Evander 
MTver, James P. Wilson, Maurice Murphy, Peter Kolb, Benjamin 
James, Tristram Thomas, Jesse Wilds, Benjamin Kolb, Thomas 
Evans, Enoch Evans, sen., Enoch Evans, jun., Samuel Wilds, Ed¬ 
ward Duke, Henry Clark and William Falconer. 

The cause of religion partook largely of the general depression 
caused by the troubled state of things during the Revolution. 
After the resignation of Mr. Winchester, in September, 1779, the 
Rev. Edmund Botsford took charge of the Welsh Neck Church. 
Mr. Botsford was very highly esteemed. He remained until the 
first of June, 1780, when upon the threatened approach of the 
British troops, he went to Virginia; returning to Pedee however, in 
1782. During his absence, the church was supplied a part of the 
time by the Rev. Joshua Lewis, an excellent man who long continued 
his faithful labors in this region. It is mentioned in the records 
of the church, that of the 220 white members left by Mr. Win¬ 
chester in September, 1779, only 48 remained in March, 1793, show¬ 
ing the sad havoc of death and the unhappy results of a protracted 

war. .. ,, . 

In 1798 the inhabitants of the river very generally gave up their 

plantations as residences and retired to the hills in the neighborhood 
of the present village. About the same time a movement was made 
to abandon the spot which had been consecrated as a place of 
religious worship for nearly three quarters of a century, and erect 

r suitable building on Society Hill. 

Before the close of the century it was probably done. The records 
of the church, for a few years following 1798, were lost or destroyed, 
and no account remains of the completion of this design. 

The first building erected after the removal was near the St. 
David’s Academy, and remained for almost half a century. The 
more imposing structure of the present day is upon a spot very 
near the original site. Sad are the changes which time brings with 
it. The si°*ns of Progress are linked with the Memorials of decay. 
The associations of the past it is well to cherish and let the earlier 
days of the old Wesh Neck never be forgotten. 

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Record of Old Cheraws Who Served in 

the Revolution 


RECORD HISTORY OF THE OLD CHERAWS WHICH WAS A 
MATTER OF HISTORY IN SOUTH CAROLINA. PARTIAL 
LIST OF PEOPLE WHO SERVED IN THE REVOLUTION 
AND LIVED IN AND NEAR CHERAW, S. C. 


Allen, Jeremiah, lieutenant of Militia, in-1782 

Ammons, John, private in Capt. Thos. Parrot’s Company 

of Horse _1782 

Ammons, Thomas, private in-1782 

Andrews, John, adjutant of Col. Hick’s Regiment from 

February to November_1780 

Arnold, William, private in-1782 

Askew, John, private under Marion-1782 

Ayer, Hartwell, private in-1778 

Bacot, Samuel, 1st Lieut, in Marion’s Brigade, in-1782 

Benton, Lemuel, private in Benton’s Regiment, in_1782 

Beasley, Daniel, private. 

Beasley, William, private. 

Berry, Wm., sergeant, in_1782 

Bird, Wm., private, in_1782 

Blackwood, Abram, private, in_1782 

Blakeney, John, sergeant in Marion’s Brigade, in_1782 

Blakeney, Robert, private, in_1782 

Blakeney, Thomas, private, in_1782 

Bozeman, John, private, in_1783 

Bryant, Gray, private, in Benton’s Regiment_1781 

Bryant, Hardy, private, in Benton’s Regiment_1781 

Burkitt, Ephriam, private, in Benton’s Regiment_1781 

Burkitt, Samuel, private, in Benton’s Regiment_1781 

Butler, John, Captain, in Benton’s Regiment _1781 

Campbell, James, sergeant, in _1782 

Cassity, Zachariah, private, in Benton’s Regiment_1782 

Champ, Richard, private, in _1782 

Cherry, William, private, in Marion’s Brigade_1782 

Clark, Harman, private, in Marion’s Brigade_1782 

Clayton, Lawrence, private, in _1782 

Clements, Joseph, private, in _1782 

Coker, Benjamin, private, in_1782 

Coker, Nathan, private, in_1782 

Coker, Thomas, private, in_1781 

Cole, James, sergeant and private, in_1782 


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Coleman, James, private, in_1782 

Coleman, John, private, in_1782 

Collier, John, private, in_1782 

Conn, Thomas, adjutant and private in Benton’s Regiment_1781 

Cone, Matthew, private, in_1782 

Conner, James, private, in _1782 

Cook, William, sergeant and private in Continental line_1782 

Council, William, private, under Marion_1782 

Courtney, Stephen, private, in _1782 

Coward, William, private, in _1780-81-82 

Cox, Emanuel, private, in_1782 

Cox, James, private, in_1782 

Cox, John, private, in Capt. Standard’s Company, Benton’s 

Regiment _1781 

Cox, Josiah, private, in Capt. Moses Pearson’s Company-1782 

Cox, Samuel, private, in Capt. Moses Pearson’s Company-1782 

Cox, William, private, in Capt. Moses Pearson’s Company-1782 

Crocker, James, private, in_1780-82 

Daniel, Aaron, private, in_1782 

Daniel, John, private, in_1782 

Darby, Jacob, private, in-1782 

David, Azariah, private, in _1782-83 

David, Ezekiel, private, in Marion’s Brigade-1782 

David, John, sergeant and lieutenant alternately-1779-82 

David, Joshua, private, Capt. Thomas Ellerbe’s Company 

Hick’s Regiment _1780 

Davis, John, private, in_1782-83 

Davis, Thomas, private, in-1782-83 

Davis, William, private, in-1782 

DeWitt, Charles, second-lieutenant, in Marion’s Brigade —1781-82 
DeWitt, Martin. 

Dial, John, private, in-1782 

Doney, Peter, private, in-1782 

Douglass, Jesse, private, in-1781-82 

Douglass, Joshua, private, in----1781-82 

DuBose, Andrew, private, in Benton’s Regiment in-1780 

and Captain in- 1181 

DuBose, Daniel. 

DuBose, Elias, lieutenant and private. 

DuBose, Isaac, private, in Mahan’s Cavalry Regiment-1782 

DuBose, Samuel. 

DuBose, William, sergeant, Benton’s Regiment, Marion’s 
Brigade. 

Duling, James, private, in- 

Duling, John, private, in- 1182 

Ellerbe, Thomas, captain, in-1781-82 


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Ellerbe, William, private, in_1782 

Evans, Benjamin, private, under Major Amos Windham. 

Evans, Burwell, private, in_1782 

Evans, Enoch, first lieutenant, Capt. Irby’s Company, Hick’s 

Regiment, siege Charlestown_1780 

Evans, Ezer, private, in Captain Irby’s Company, Hick’s 

Regiment, siege Charlestown_1780 

Evans, George, lieutenant, in_1781-82 

Evans, John, private, in _1782-83 

Evans, Josiah, private, in Benton’s Regiment_1781-82 

Evans, Thomas, private, in Hick’s Regiment, siege Charlestown, 1780 

Evans, William. 

Fort, Moses, private, Irby’s Company, Hick’s Regiment, siege 

Charlestown_1780 

Faulkner, John, private, under Marion. 

Fountain, William, private, in _1783 

Flowers, John, private, in _1782 

Fitzpatrick, James, private, in_1782 

Ford, Albert, private, in_1781-82 

Frasher, private, in _1781 

Fuller, John, private, in _1781 

Farmer, Zachariah, private, in _1781 

Gardner ,Stephen, private, in_1781 

Gardner, William, private, in_1782 

Gay, lieutenant, in_1781-82 

Gibson, Thomas, sen., private, in _1782 

Gillespie, James, sergeant, Martin’s Troop, Sumpter’s 
Brigade. 

Gillespie, Samuel, private, Robuek’s Regiment. 

Goodson, Arthur, private, in_1782 

Goodson, Thomas, private, in _1782 

Goodwyn, Britain, private, in_1782 

Goodwyn, David, private, in_1782 

Goodwyn, Lewis, private, in _1782 

Gregg, James, captain, Britton’s Neck Regiment, Colonel 
Ervin. 

Griffith, Joseph, captain. 

Grimes, James, private, Irby’s Company, Hick’s Regiment, 

siege Charlestown _1780 

Hagin, David, private, in Benton’s Regiment_1782 

Hales, Silas, private, in_1782 

Harrall, Levi, private, in_1782 

Harrington, Wm. Henry, commanding South Carolina Militia, 

both sides Pedee_1780 

Harrison, Henry, private, in _1782 

Hendley, Jesse, private, in_1782 

Hendricks, William, captain, Marion’s Brigade_1782 


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Hewstess, James, sergeant _1782 

Hicks, George, colonel_1779-80-81 

Hickson, John, private, in _1782 

Hindley, Edward, private, in Benton’s Regiment. 

Hinds, John, lieut. and private, in_1782 

Hines, Samuel, lieut. and private, in_1782 

Hinson, Clayburn, commanding detachment prisoners to 

Long Bluff, April _1781 

Hinson, William, private, Round 0 Company Militia_1779 

Ilird, John, lieutenant, in_1782 

Hodge, Elias, private, in_1779 

Hodge, Isham, private, under Major Tristram Thomas, 

Hick’s Regiment_1780 

Hodge, James, private, under Lieut. John Pledger,, Murphy’s 

Regiment _1782 

Hodge, John, private, in Capt. Standard’s Company, Hick’s 

Regiment_1780-81 

Hodge, Joseph, private, under Major Thomas, and in Hick’s 

Regiment in_1782 

Hodge, Robert, sergeant, Captains Standard’s and Pearson’s 

Companies, Benton’s Regiment_1780-82 

Hodge, Thomas, private, in_1782 

Hodge, Welcome, sergeant, Benton’s Regiment, siege Charles¬ 
town _1780 

Hollis, Moses, lieutenant, in_1783 

Hubbard, Noah, private, in___1782 

Huckaby, Isham, sergeant and private, in_1782 

Huckaby, Samuel, sergeant and private, in-1782 

Huckaby, Thomas, private, in---1782 

Huggins, John, captain, Col. Hugh Giles Regiment-1779 

Hunt, Criswell, private, Benton’s Regiment. 

Irby, Charles, commissary_1782 

Irby, Edmund, captain, Hick’s Regiment, M’lntosh’s Brigade, 

siege Charlestown _1780 

Jackson, John, lieutenant, in_1782 

Jackson, Stephens, captain, Kolb’s Regiment-1780 

Jackson, Stephens, Jr., private, in-1782 

Jackson, William, private, in-1782 

James, Alexander, lieutenant, in-1782 

James, Georgia, private, in-1782 

James, James, private, in -1782 

Jenkins, Charles, private, in- 1J82 

Jenkins, James, lieutenant, in Benton’s Regiment-1782 

Jenkins, Reuben, lieutenant and private, in-1782 

Jinkins, James, lieutenant, in Benton’s Regiment-1782 

John, Azel, private, Benton’s Regiment-1782 

John, Jesse, private, Benton’s Regiment-1783 


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John, Thomas, private, Benton’s Regiment-1782 

Johnson, John, private, Captain Standard’s Company, Ben¬ 
ton’s Regiment _1781 

Johnston, John, private, in_1782 

Jolley, Joseph, private, in _1782 

Jones, Edward, Captain of Guard, Kolb’s Ferry-1780-83 

Jones, James, private, in____1782 

Jones, William, private, in_1782 

Keil, William, private, in_1782 

Keith, Cornelius, private, in_1782 

Kennedy, Stephen, private, in_1782 

Kilgore, Henry, private, in_ 1782 

Kirby, James, private, in_1782 

Knight, Niglet, private, in_1782 

Kolb, Benjamin, Benton’s Regiment_1781 

Kolb, John, sergeant and corporal, in_1780-81 

Kolb, Peter, private, in_1782 

Large, David, private, in_1782 

Lee, William, private, in_ r _1782 

Lide, Robert, Major, Marion’s Brigade. 

Lowther, Edward, private, in_1781-82 

Lowry, Robert, private, in Marion’s Brigade_1781 

Luke, Owen, private, in_1781 

Lundy, Drewry, private, in_1781 

Lundy, John, private, in_1781-82 

Lyons, Guthridge, Captain, Benton’s Regiment_1781 

Lyons, William, private, in_1781-82 

Mario, James, private, in_1782 

Mannings, James, private, in_1782 

Marsh, John Lewis, private, in Benton’s Regiment_1781 

Martin, Jeremiah, private, in Benton's Regiment_1781 

Martin, William, private, in Benton’s Regiment_1781 

Mason, Charles, Commissary under Marion, and private, in __1782 

Mason, Joseph, private, in_1782 

M’Call, George, private, under Marion’s Brigade_1782 

M ’Call, Henry, sergeant of horse_1782-83 

M’Call, John, lieutenant and private, Marion’s Brigade_1781-82 

M’Call, William, private, in_1782 

M'Carter, James, private, in _1782 

M’Cullough, George, Captain, in_1782 

M'Donald, John, private, in_1782 

M’Dowell, Samuel, priate, in_1782 

M 'Gee, James, private, in_1782 

M’lntosh, Alexander, Captain, Benton’s Regiment_1781-82 

M’lntosh, Lacklin, private, in _1782 

M’lntosh, William, private, in Captain Nelson’s Company, 


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Marion’s Brigade _1781-82 

M’lver, Evander, private and clerk in Captain Irby’s Com¬ 
pany, Hick’s Regiment, M’lntosh’s Brigade_1780 

M’Muldrongh, Andrew, private, in_1782 

M’Muldrough, Hugh, sergeant-major, in _1782 

M’Muldrough, James, sergeant-major, in_1782 

M‘ Muldrough, William, lieutenant, in_1782 

M’Natt, Joel, private, Murphy’s Regiment, Marion’s Brigade__1782 

M’Natt, Mackey, private, in _1782 

Mikell, James, private, in_1782 

Mikell, John, Jun., Lieut, and private, Marion’s Brigade __1780-82 

Miles, William, private, in_1782 

Mixon,, Maraday, private, under Lieut. John Rushing, Ben¬ 
ton’s Regiment, at Long Bluff in_1783 

Mixon, Samuel, private, in_1782 

Moody, Andrew, private, in Captain Standard’s Company, 

Benton’s Regiment _1781 

Moody, Roderick, private in Captain Standard’s Company, 

Benton’s Regiment_1781 

Moore, Gully, private, in_1782 

Moore, Jeremiah, private, in_1782 

Munnerlyn, James, Lieutenant. 

Murphy, Maurice, Captain, in Hick’s Regiment in 1779-80 

Major in 1780-81, and Lieut.-Col. Commanding,-1781-82 

Murray, William, private, in-1782 

Nettles, George, private, in Pedee Regiment, Marion’s 

Brigade _1780-82 

Nettles, Joseph, private, in-1779-82 

Nettles, Robert, private, in Marion’s Brigade. 

Noland, William, private, in-1782 

Northent, William, private, in- 1182 

Norwod, John, Captain, in Marion’s Brigade in-1782 

Norwood, Samuel, private in-1782 

Nugent, Thomas, private, in-1782 

O'Neal, John, Commissary of detachment under Col. Benton __1782 

Outlaw, Benjamin, private, in-1782 

Parker, Moses, private, in-1781-82-83 

Parrott, Thomas, Captain of Horse, in-1782 

Pasley, Robert, Captain, in-1781 

Pearson, Aaron, private, in —_- 1782 

Pearson, Moses, Lieutenant, in Hick’s Regiment in 1780, and^ 

Captain in Benton’s Regiment, Marion’s Brigade, in __1781-82 

Perkins, David, private, in-1783 

Perkins, Isaac, Sergeant, in- ^09 

Perkins, William, private, in-1782 

Pigot, John, Sergeant, in-1782 


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Pigot, Nathanael, private, in-1782 

Pledger, John, Lieutenant, in Marion’s Camp, 1781-82, and 

Lieutenant Commanding in Murphy’s Regiment, July-1782 

Poke, Daniel, private, in_1782 

Poke, John, private, in_1782 

Poke, Luke, private, in_1782 

Pouncey, Anthony, Quarter-Master, in-1780 

Powe, Thomas, Commissary, Hick’s Regiment-1780 

Powers, Nicholas, private, in-1782 

Preswood, Jonathan, Sergeant, in-1782 

Preswod, Thmas, private, in _1782 

Purvis, Alexander, private, in -1782 

Purvis, Gilbert, private, in_1782 

Purvis, John, Lieut.-Col., in_1780 

Raburn, John, private, in Captain Daniel Spark’s Company 1779-80 

Raspberry, John, private, in -1782 

Rasher, Michael, private, in_1782 

Rawlinson, John, private, in Benton’s Regiment-1782 

Rivers, Frederick, private, in_1782 

Roan, William, private, in- 1782 

Roberts, Philip, private, in-1782 

Rogers, Edward, private, in_1782 

Rouse, Neal, private, in_1782 

Rushing, John, Lieutenant, Benton’s Regiment, at Long Bluff 

in_1782-83 

Russell, Stephen, Sergeant and private, in-1782 

Sansbury, Daniel, private, in_1781-82 

Saunders, Nathanael, Lieutenant and private, under Benton 

in_1780-81 

Sellers, William, private, in _1782 

Sexton, Edward, private, in_1782 

Shoemake, Samuel, private, in_1782 

Simons, David, Sergeant, in_1782 

Simons, Samuel, private, in_1782 

Smith, Charles, private, in Capt. Thomas Ellerbe’s Company __1782 

Smith, John, private, in Capt. Thomas Ellerbe’s Company_1782 

Smith, Richard, private, in Capt. Thomas Ellerbe’s Company __1782 
Smith, Jeremiah, private, in Andrew DuBose’s and Thomas 

Ellerbe’s Companies, Benton’s Regiment_1782 

Sparks, Daniel, Captain, in_1781-82 

Spears, David, private, in_1781 

Standard, William, Captain in Benton’s Regiment_1781-82 

Spencer, Calvin, Assistant Quartermaster-General, June to 

August -1780 

Stanley, Shadrack, private, in_1782 

Starks, Henry, private, in_1782 

Stephens, John, private, in_1782 


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Strother, George, Lieutenant, in_1782 

Teal, Edward, private, in_1782 

Terrell, Edward, private, in _1782 

Terrell, James, Lieutenant, Benton’s Regiment at Long Bluff_1783 

Terrell, Samuel, Lieutenant, in_1781-82-83 

Thomas, Tristram, Captain, in Hick’s, Kolb’s and Benton’s 

Regiments-1781-82 

Thorp, Eleazer, private, in_1782 

Tootles, Obed, private, in_1782 

Townsend, Light, private, in Benton’s Regiment_1782 

Veal, John, private, in___1782 

Vickers, Jacob, private, in_1782 

Vining, Jesse, private, in_1782-83 

Waddell, Abel, private, in _1781 

Warwick, Abraham, private, in_1782 

Watkins, Samuel, private, under Capt. Amos Windham. 

Weaver, Hartwell, private, in_1782 

White, James, private, in_1782 

Whittington, Barnett, private, in_1782 

Whittington, Ephriam, Lieutenant, Benton’s Regiment in 1781-82-83 

Whittington, Francis, private, in_1782 

Whittington, Levi, private, in_1782 

Whittington, Nathanael, private, in_1782 

Whittington, Richard, private, in_1782 

Wilds, Abel, private, in_1782 

Wilds, Jesse, Lieutenant, in_1782 

Wilds, Samuel, private, in_1782 

Williams, Daniel, Captain, in Benton’s Regiment in_1781 

Williamson, Jesse, private, in Marion’s Brigade_1782 

Williamson, Shadrach, Lieutenant and private, in_1782 

Williamson, Stephen. 

Williamson, Sterling, private, in_1782 

Williamson, William, private,_1782 

Williamson, Willis, private, in_1782 

Wingate, Edward, private, in_1782 

Windham, Amos, Captain, under Kolb, and Major in_1782 

Windham, Jesse, private. 

Windham, William, private, in_1782 

Wise, James, private, in_1782 

Wise, William, private, in _1782 

Wood, Benjamin, private, in _1782 

Woodward, Thomas, private, in_1782 

Wright, Amos, private, in Capt. Amos Windham’s Coinpany__1782 

Wright, Gillis, private, in_1782 

Wright, Joseph, private, in-1782 

Wright, Solomon, private, in Capt. Windham’s Company_1782 

Yates, William, private, in _1782 

Youngblood, David, private, in-1782 

Youngblood, Peter, Captain, in-1782 


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Letters from Archives of Ga. Penn, and 
Other States and War Records of 

Evans Family 


DEPARTMENT 

OF 

ARCHIVES AND HISTORY 
STATE OF GEORGIA 

Atlanta, Ga., September 12, 1822. 

Mr. J. H. Beusse, 

Athens, Ga. 

Dear Sir: 

Yours of the 7th instant addressed to the Adjutant-General and re¬ 
ferred to this Department. 

Georgia’s Roster of the Revolution lists both David and Thomas Evans. 
The service certificate issued David by Col. Elijah Clarke on August 
24, 1784, is in our possession, a copy of which can be had for $.25, or a 
certified copy for $2.00. Both David and Thomas received the bount 
grants of land for Revolutionary services. Copies of these grants can 
be had from the office of the Secretary of State, where these records 
have been retained since they affect present day titles. David Evans 
served also in the War of 1812, in fact there seems to have been two 
men by this name in this yar. David, a private, was in service from 
August 13th-August 17th, 1813, in Capt. John Wilson’s Company; David 
Evans was appointed Lieutenant June 20th, 1812, of a volunteer com¬ 
pany of riflemen and attached to 77th Battalion; again, David Evans, 
Lieutenant, served from August 1 lth-September 8th, 1813. These 
records of the men having been in service certain days are taken from 
the payrolls covering that time. The men, without doubt, were in 
service both prior to and following those dates. 

The rosters of the Indian Wars, the War with Mexico, and the Spanish- 
American war have not yet been compiled. That is work that we hope 
to do in this Department during the next few years. Our roster of the 
Revolution was published in 1919, and the work on the War of 1812 
is nearly completed. 

During the past year the public service records (exclusive of military 
service) of all Georgians who have served either the State or Federal 
Government since 1754 have been compiled by this office. Included in 
these records I find the name of Thomas C. Evans, who served in the 
House of Representatives from Muscogee County in 1838. 

Assuring you of our pleasure in being of service at all times, I am 

Very truly yours, 

RUTH BLAIR, Secretary. 

Our records of Thomas Evans’ service in War of 1812 are not as full 
as the records that have been furnished you. 


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Atlanta, Ga., October 2, 1922. 


Mr. J. H. Beusse, 

Athens, Ga. 

Dear Mr. Beusse: 

Your letter of the 25th instant reached the office during my absence 
on a week’s vacation, hence the delay in this connection. 

Enclosed you will find a letter from the office of the Secretary of 
State relative to the land grants to David and Thomas Evans. I do not 
known why the record of the grants cannot be located there as I am sure 
both men received the county grants of 287 ^ acres. The certificate 
issued to David Evans on the 24th day of August, 1784, by Col. Elijah 
Clarke carries a notation of the back as follows: “David Evans peti¬ 
tions to have a warrant for the within certificate located to Franklin 
County and will pray and David Evans.’’ This petition was of course 
addressed to the Land Court in Augusta. Georgia’s Roster of the 
Revolution contains a list of Revolutionary Soldiers from Wilkes County, 
Georgia, as taken from Land Lottery Records, compiled by Miss Annie 
M. Lane, of Washington, Georgia. This list contains the name of Thomas 
Evans. Miss Lane is still living at Washington and can be reached in 
the usual way. 

The index to the land grand records in the office of the Secretary of 
State shows that David Evans was granted 200 acres of land in Wilkes 
County in 17 85 (page 772), and 140 acres in Washington County in 
1791 (page 511), and that Thomas Evans received 13 acres in Wilkes 
County in 1804 (page 729). A manuscript list of the men receiving 
grants in Washington County from the time of the establishment of the 
Land Court to the sixth day of August, 1787, shows that David Evans 
received a headright grant of 200 acres on December 19, 1785. This 
record is signed by Joseph Miller, Ordinary of Washington County, Nov. 
16, 1797, and is on file in this Department. 

Not knowing exactly what you will wish done under the circumstances, 
I will hold your check until I hear further from you. 

There is no charge for our work of this character. It is our desire 
to be of all possible assistance at all times. 

Regretting the delay in this connection, I am 

Very truly yours, 

RUTH BLAIR, Secretary. 


HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF YORK COUNTY_ 

York, Penna., January 22, 1923. 

Mr. J. H. Beusse, 

Athens, Ga. 

Mr Dear Sir: 

Complying with your request and that of Mr. Shenk, of Harrisburg, 
I have made a careful search through the York County records and the 
Pennsylvania Archives and have secured the following data: 

Daniel Evans served in Capt. French Battell’s Company, May 28, 17 58, 
in the French and Indian War. See Pennsylvania Archives, fifth series, 
volume 1, page 17 6. 

Daniel and David Evans served in the third company, of the third 
battalion in Bucks Militia under the command of Col. William Roberts, 
June 12, 1780. David served as a clerk. See Pennsylvania Archives, 
volume 5, page 359, and 360, fifth series. 

David Evans served in Richard Gardiner’s Company belonging to the 
Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by the Honorable WJlliam Denny, 
Esq., i749, in the Colonial Wars. He was twenty-five years old and came 

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from Pennsylvania. He enlisted May 3, 1749. Sjee Pennsylvania 
Archives, fifth series, volume 1, page 29. 

David Evans served as a private in Capt. Peter Z. Lloyd’s Company, 
in 177 6, in the Musketry Battalion. See Pennsylvania Archives, fifth 
series, volume 2, page 472. 

Thomas Evans of York County, served in Capt. Thomas White’s Com¬ 
pany, York County Militia, for the year 1782, according to the record 
found in Pennsylvania Archives, sixth series, volume 2, page 706. 

William Evans also served in the Sixth Battalion in Capt. Jeremiah 
Talbot’s Company, commanded by Col. Wm. Irvine. He was a private 
in 1776. 

William Evans served in the Musketry Battalion commanded by 
Samuel J. Atlee in Capt. Thomas Herbert’s Company. This company 
was raised in Leacock and Salisburg Townships, Lancaster County. He 
was a sergeant in 17 76. See Pennsylvania Archives, fifth series, volume 
2, page 483. 

I spent one full day with my assistant going through the Pennsylvania 
Archives, and the original muster roll of the Revolution for York County, 
and from that source obtained the data given below. The Evans family 
as you know, were originally Welsh, but some of them came to Penn¬ 
sylvania from Ireland and are known as Irish-Quakers. My own ances¬ 
tors were Welsh and one of them together with a family of Evans came 
to York County before the Revolution and formed a Welsh-Baptist 
Church together with other members. This church is not now in exist¬ 
ence. The Evans’ of York and Lancaster County seemed to be the 
parties in which you are most interested. Henry Evans, one of the 
pioneers of York County settled in Windsor Township, and two other 
families of the same name settled in Warrington. One branch of this 
family moved westward with the Quakers into what is now Adams 
County which belonged to York County before 1800. 

Yours very truly, 

(Seal) GEO. R. PROWELL. 


York, Penna., February 9, 1923. 

To Whom It May Concern: 

I hereby certify that David Evans served in the Third Company of the 
Third Battalion in Bucks County Pennsylvania Militia under the command 
of Col. William Roberts, June 12, 1780. He served as a clerk. 

See Pennsylvania Archives, fifth series, volume 5, page 360. 

Respectfully submitted, 

(Seal) GEO. R. PROWELL. 


York, Penna., February 9, 1923. 

To Whom It May Concern: 

I hereby certify that David Evans served as a private in Capt. Peter 
Z. Lloyd’s Company in 177 6 in the Musketry Battalion. 

See Pennsylvania Archives, fifth series, volume 2, page 472. 

Respectfully submitted, 

(Seal) GEO. R. PROWELL. 


York, Penna., February 9, 1923. 

To Whom It May Concern: 

I hereby certify that Daniel Evans served in the Third Company of the 
Third Battalion in Bucks County Pennsylvania Militia under the com¬ 
mand of Col. William Roberts, June 12, 1780. 

See Pennsylvania Archives, fifth series, volume 5, page 359. 

Respectfully submitted, 

(Seal) GEO. R. PROWELL. 


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rp T , __ „ York, Penna., February 9, 1923. 

To Whom It May Concern: 

I hereby certify that William Evans served in the Sixth Battalion in 
i^apt. Jeremiah Talbot’s Company commanded by Col. Wm. Irvine. lie 
was a private in 17 76, and was in the army three years or more. 

See Pennsylvania Archives, fifth series, volume 2, page 240. 

Respectfully submitted, 

(beal) GEO. R. PROWELL. 


™ T i ™ „ York ’ R enna -> February 9, 1923. 

To Whom It May Concern: 

I hereby certify that Daniel Evans of Pennsylvania served in Captain 
French Battell’s Company, May 28, 1758, in the French and Indian War 
and was in the service two years or more. 

See Pennsylvania Archives, fifth series, volume 1, page 176. 

Respectfully submitted, 

(Sea1 ' GEO. R. PROWELL. 


_ , York, Penna., February 9, 1923. 

To Whom It May Concern: 

I hereby certify that Thomas Evans of York County served in Capt 
Thomas White’s Company, York County Militia for the year 1782 ac¬ 
cording to the record found in Pennsylvania Archives, sixth series volume 
2, page 70 6. 

Respectfully submitted, 

( Seal ) GEO. R. PROWELL. 


York, Penna., February 9, 1923. 

To Whom It May Concern: 

I hereby certify that William Evans served in the Musketry Battalion 
commanded by Samuel J. Atlee in Capt. Thomas Herbert’s Company. 
This company was raised in Leacock and Salisbury Townships, Lancaster 
County. He was a sergeant in 1776. 

See Pennsylvania Archives, fifth series, volume 2, page 483. 

Respectfully submitted, 

(Seal) GEO. R. PROWELL. 


York, Penna., February 9, 1923. 

To Whom It May Concern: 

I hereby certify that David Evans served as a private in Richard Gard- 
nier’s Company, belonging to the Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded 
by the Honorable William Denny, Esq., 1749, in the Colonial War. He 
was twenty-five years old and came from Pennsylvania. He enlisted 
May 3, 1749. 

See Pennsylvania Archives, fifth series, volume 1, page 29. 

Respectfully submitted, 

(Seal) GEO. R. PROWELL. 


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THE FOLLOWING SERVED IN THE REVOLUTION FROM THE STATE 

OF VIRGINIA. 

(Ranks and counties from which enlisted are given after the soldier’s 

name, when this is known). 

Evans, - (Washington). 

Evans, Arnold. 

Evans, Charles. 

Evans, Coventon. 

Evans, D., (Colonel), (Monongalia). 

Evans, Daniel. 

Evans, David. 

Evans, Dudley. 

Evans, Edward, (Monongalia). 

Evans, Ernalt. 

Evans, George, (Surgeon). 

Evans, Henry, (Rockbridge). 

Evans, James, (Amherst). 

Evans, James, (Shenandoah). 

Evans, Jesse, (Captain). 

Evans, Jesse, (Montgomery). 

Evans, John, (Colonel), (Monongalia). 

Evans, Littleburg. 

Evans, Mabee. 

Evans, Major. 

Evans, Matthew. 

Evans, Nathaniel. 

Evans, Peter. 

Evans, Philip, (Navy). 

Evans, Richard. 

Evans, Robert. 

Evans, Solomon. 

Evans, Stanhope. 

Evans, Stephen. 

Evans, Thomas, (Surgeon). 

Evans, Thomas, (Lunenburg). 

Evans, Vincent, (Navy). 

Evans, William, (Lt.), (Buckingham). 

Evans, William, (Matthews). 

Evans, Witt, (Sussex). 

Bullock, David, (Louisa). 

Bullock, Edward, (Hanover). 

Bullock, James, (Spottsylvania). 

Bullock, John. 

Bullock, Joseph. 

Bullock, Josiah. 

Bullock, Nathaniel. 

Bullock, Obadiah, (Isle of Wight). 

Bullock, Rice, (Lt. Illinois). 

Bullock, Price, (Q. M. 15th Regiment) 

Lindsey, Joseph, (Charlotte). 

Bullock, Rice, (Lt. 3rd Regiment). 

Lindsey, Abraham, (Frederick). 

Lindsey, Arthur. 

Lindsey, David. 

Lindsey, Edward. 

Lindsey, Hezekiah. 

Lindsey, James, (Spottsylvania). 

Lindsey, John, (Navy). 

Londsey, Josepr, (Comm.). 


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Lindsey, Kiah. 

Lindsey, Lewis, (Charlotte). 
Lindsey, Michael. 

Lindsey, Micajah. 

Lindsey, Peter. 

Lindsey, Reuben, (Albermarle). 
Lindsey, Reuben, (Colonel). 
Lindsey, Richard, (Colonel). 
Lindsey, Thomas. 

Lindsey, William, (Captain.) 


THOMAS EVANS. 

Grandfather of Jesse Hoyt Beusse. Born in Wilkes County, Georgia 
1786. Son of Thomas Evans, Jr. 

Served in the War of 1812, as a private, from October 25th, 1813, to 
March 2nd, 1814, in Capt. William Park’s Company, and from November 
21st, 1814, to May 6th, 1815, in Captain Kendrick’s Company, Georgia 
Militia. Also served for a time with Capt. Wm. Varner’s Volunteer 
Troops Light Dragoons, Freeman’s Squadron Cavalry, Georgia Militia. 
Was discsharged at Fort Hawkins, which was located in what is now 
East Macon, Ga., across the river from Macon, Ga. 

Married in Madison County, Georgia, December 26th, 1816, to Clarissa 
Allen, and she was allowed a pension on her application executed May 
20th, 1874. Her age at the time this was granted was 74 years, and 
she was then a resident of Athens, Ga., where she died August 27th, 
1888. She was born in Wilkes County, Georgia. 

Thomas Evans died April 10th, 1861, at Athens, Georgia. 

These records may be found with the War Department Adjutant Gen¬ 
eral’s Department, Washington, D. C. This information furnished by 
R. C. Davis, Acting Adjutant General, August 17th, 1922. 

Information also furnished by Department of the Interior, Bureau of 
Pensions, Washington, D. C., by Washington Gardner, Commissioner, 
August 15th, 1922. 


STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 
TO THOMAS EVANS, DR. 


To Sixty Days Service in the Siege of Charleston at Ten 

Shillings old Currency pr. Day- £30-0-0 

St. £ 4.5.8% 

SOUTH CAROLINA, 

CHERAW DIST. 

Personally appeared before me Tris. M. Thomas, one of the Justices 
of said District. Thomas Evans who being duly sworn saith that the 
above account of Sixty Days against State of South Carolina is just and 
true and that he has received no part thereof. 

TRIS.M.THOMAS, J. P. 

Sworn before me, this 7th of September, 1785. 

Received the 31 December, 178 5, full satisfaction for the within ac¬ 
count in indent No. 749. Y. 

THOS. EVANS. 


Endorsed on wrapper: 749. Y., 31 December 85. 

Thomas Evans of Cheraw for 60 days duty as a Private Soldier in Capt. 
Edmund Irby’s Company, Col. Hick’s Regiment in General McIntosh’s 
Brigade at the Siege of Charleston in 1780, at 10 Shillings per day is 

Currency -£30-0-0 

Stg. _^ 4-5-8% 


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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 

OFFICE OF HISTORICAL COMMISSION. 

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and accurate copy of an 
account against the State of South Carolina for services rendered in the 
Militia thereof by Thomas Evans during the war of the Revolution, 
which account was duly approved and paid and is now a public record of 
this state on file in this office, which is a department of the executive 
branch of the government of South Carolina. 

Given under my hand and seal this 12th day of February, 1923. 

A. S. SALLEY, JR., Secretary. 

Taken from “Stub Entries to Indents, issued in payment of Claims 
against South Carolina growing out of the Revolution, Books U-W,” 
Edited by A. S. Salley, Jr., Secretary of the Historical Commission of 
South Carolina. Pages 48-49. 

No. 320. Lib. U.—Issued 13th July, 1785, to Mr. Nathaniel Evans, for 
Four pounds lls/5d Stlg. for Militia duty as Private, per account 
audited. 

Principal L4—11—5. Annual interest LO—6/4. 

No. 321. Lib. U.—Issued 13th July ,1785, to Mr. William Evans, for 
eight pounds, 17s/ldl/2 Stlg. for Militia duty as Private, per account 
audited. 

Principal L8—17__1%. Annual interest LO—12-4. 

No. 322. Lib. U.—Issued 13th July, 1785, to Mr. William Evans, for 
five pounds, 8s/6d 3/4 Stlg. for Militia duty as private, per account 
audited. 

Principal L5—8—6 3/4. Annual interest LO—7—7. 


MILITARY RECORD OF JESSE HOYT BEUSSE OF ATHENS, GA. 

Beginning in the year 1878. 

Served as Marker and Private with The Athens Guards. 

Charter member of The Clarke Rifles, of Athens, Ga., advancing from 
Private to Corporal, Sergeant, etc. 

Commissioned by Gov. IVilliam J. Northern of Georgia, Second Lieut, 
of Clarke Rifles, February 23rd, 1892. 

Commissioned by Gov. William J. Northern of Georgia, First Lieut, 
of Clarke Rifles, November 11th, 1892. 

Commissioned by Gov. William Y. Atkinson of Georgia, Captain of 
Clarke Rifles of the Georgia Volunteers, March 29th, 1895. 

Commissioned by Gov. William Y. Atkinson of Georgia, Captain, Com¬ 
pany G., Second Regiment Georgia Infantry, U. S. Volunteers, May 14th, 
1898. 

Commissioned by Gov. J. M. Terrell of Georgia, Captain National 
Guard of Georgia, retired by Act of General Assembly, approved August 
22nd, 1905, to rank as such from April 14th, 1902. 

Commissioned by Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia, Lieutenant-Colonel 
and Aide-De-Camp to the Governor State of Georgia, September 7th, 1907. 

Commissioned by Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia, Lieutenant-Colonel re¬ 
tired National Guard of Georgia, June 22nd, 1909. 

Commissioned by Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia, Lieutenant-Colonel, 
Aide-De-Camp, Staff of the Governor, August 3 0th, 1911. 


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HENRY WASHBURN BEUSSE, 

Son of Henry Beusse. 

Born in Athens, Ga., Oconee Street, November 24th, 1869. 

Educated in the schools of Athens. 

Was bookkeeper and with the railroad for a number of years and is 
at present serving as Chief of Police of Athens, Ga. He was elected 
Chief of Police, June 6th, 1916, and is still serving as Chief of Police. 

MILITARY RECORD. 

Served in the Spanish-American War as a Private. 

Enrolled for service April 28th, 1898, at Athens, Ga. Served in Com¬ 
pany G, 2nd Regiment Infantry Volunteers. 

Mustered out November 30th, 1898. 

Joined Company B, 40th Regiment of Infantry U. S. Volunteers, 
September 2nd, 189 8. Saw service in the Philippines one year, nine 
months and twenty-four days, and was in the following battles in the 
Philippines: 

Battle of Lubinan, February 20th, 1900. 

Battle of Lulud, March 1st, 1900. 

Battle of Menit, P. I., July 21st, 1900. 

Skirmish at Laveta, P. I., July 20th, 1901. 

Expedition by General Bell, Matwan and Southern Luzon, February 
14th, 1900. 

Expedition General Bates Mindowar Province, March 1st, 1900. 

Service, honest and faithful. Character, good. 


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The Colored People of Athens and 

Clarke County 


The City of Athens and Clarke County has always been fortunate in 
having one of the best classes of colored population in the south. There 
has never been in my experience of fifty-eight years that I have lived in 
Athens, and I have travelled all over the country; there has never been 
any friction or any class trouble that amounted to anything for the simple 
reason that the colored people have always been treated honestly and 
fairly by the people of the city and county. 

It has always been my observation, from the time I was a small boy, 
that where the darky belonged to good white Christian people, their 
servants, the darkies, were good negroes, and those that belonged to peo¬ 
ple who were not Christians, etc., usually had mean negroes. 

I can count thousands of good darkies in and around Athens as my 
friends as it has always been my motto to deal honestly and fairly with 
the negro, as with the white man. No man deserves any credit, how¬ 
ever, for being honest and upright for the simple reason that he should 
be honest and upright. Do unto your fellow-man as you would have him 
do unto you, is a good motto for anyone ,white or black to follow. 

Following is a little history which you will enjoy reading, of the Col¬ 
ored Brother. 

Respectfully, 

J. H. BEUSSE. 

March 20th, 1923. 


THE “COLORED BROTHER” OR “THE CREATOR’S MASTERPIECE” 

as the writer regards him. 

Compliments of 
PITNER & BEUSSE 

Merchandise Brokers 
Athens, Georgia. 

“The negro can lie down beneath the scorching rays of a noonday sun 
and sleep the sleep of the seven sleepers of old without suffering any evil 
effects from it whatever; or he can weather the fiercest winter gale, clad 
only in a pair of cotton overalls and a blue jumper. He can also wear an 
overcoat to a Fourth of July celebration, or a pair of linen pants and an 
alpaca coat to a Christmas tree and be perfectly comfortable. And, 
strange as it may seem, anybody’s clothes will nt him and look nice on 
him. There is nothing else like him under the sun. He sees all things, 
hears all things, believes all things and has implicit faith in everything 
he sees or hears and stands ready at all times to step aboard of anything 
that comes along, from a young mule to a flying machine. 

“Wireless telegraphy is nothing new to him; he has used it for ages; 
every negro’s mouth is a transmitter and every ear a receiver. If any¬ 
thing of importance happens on a plantation tonight, every negro for 
forty miles around will know it by morning. 

“Saturday is his special day by custom and common consent, and if you 
have any business to attend to in a delta town on Saturday, attend to it 
early and get off the streets before you get hurt. A negro cannot see you 
Saturday unless you owe him something, and if you get in his way he is 
liable to step on your, sit down on you, or back you up against a brick 


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wall and smother you to death. He does not usually do these things, or 
any of them, through any evil design, as many sometimes suppose, but 
he simply cannot help it if you get in his way, for he is busy and cannot 
look out for you. Saturday is his ‘rashions’ and news exchange day, and 
in addition to having all those things on his mind, he has to shake hands 
with every other negro in town and hug every negro woman he meets. 
You had better take out an accident policy or get off the streets Saturday. 

“The standard ‘rashions’ for a negro is a peck of cornmeal, two pounds 
of sugar, one pound of coffee, three pounds of salt meat and one gallon 
of black molasses a week, but he can sonsume all of this at one sitting if 
necessary, or if he is working for you and boarding himself he can live 
a week on three soda crackers, a box of sardines and five cents’ worth of 
cheese. In other words, his stomach is built on the same general plan of 
an old-fashioned accordion, and either contracts or expands according to 
the pressure brought to bear upon it. 

“'He is also immune to nearly all kinds of poisons, and can swallow 
the most deadly drugs with impunity. I remember of having a negro 
working for me one time who was having chills and was suffering with 
severe backaches. I got him a bottle of chill tonic to take and a bottle of 
liniment to rub his back with. The liniment was labeled in box-car let¬ 
ters, ‘Poison: For External Use Only,’ and I cautioned him about it when 
I gave it to him, but for three days and nights, before I found it out, he 
had been rubbing his back with the chill tonic and taking a tablespoonful 
of the liniment three times a day before each meal, with excellent re¬ 
sults. On another occasion I was sick and had a negro to wait upon me, 
and the doctor opened a can of antiphlogistine to make a plaster for my 
side, and left the can on the kitchen table, and when my negro went in 
to get his supper he mistook it for a can of peanut butter and ate the 
whole of it without ever discovering his mistake. 

“He is likewise a great admirer of art, and in nearly every negro’s 
home, be it ever so humble, there hangs a life-size crayon portrait of him¬ 
self on the wall right opposite the door, where you will be sure to see it 
as you come in the door. The rest of his surplus money he usually 
spends for entertainment, preferably an excursion, but anything else in 
motion will do. I have frequently stood on the street corner on a cold, 
cloudy winter day and watched as many as fifty negroes, who would not 
average 50 cents each, and none of whom had on clothes enough to flag 
a flat car, clinging to a merry-go-round as it went round and round, grind¬ 
ing out that well-known and much-beloved melody, ‘Oh, Billy Bailey, Why 
Don’t You Come Home?’ and their front teeth shining like the beys on a 
baby grand piano, while hundreds of others, who did not have the pr.ce of 
a ride, were standing in half-frozen mud shoe-mouth deep, cheering them 
as they came round. 

“All things are pleasing to him. A circus or a funeral is equally en¬ 
joyable, but a protracted meeting followed by a big baptizing, or a term 
of circuit court followed by a public hanging, is his chiefest delight. 

“Whenever a negro tires of country life he moves to town, acquires a 
charcoal bucket and a tailor’s goose, forms an alliance with some white 
man’s cook, and with his living thus assured, opens a cleaning and press¬ 
ing establishment. He then goes out Monday morning and gathers in the 
Sunday clothes of the white clerks of town, and after wearing them him¬ 
self every night during the week, he gets up Saturday morning and treats 
them to a gasoline bath, flattens them out with a red-hot iron and rushes 
them home to their owners, so that they may wear them Sunday; col¬ 
lects $1.50 for his services in their behalf and goes on his way rejoic¬ 
ing. But should there be any special occasion in town on Saturday night 
which he wishes to attend he holds back the best suit that he happens 
to have on hand and wears it to that, and carries it home Sunday morn- 


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Ing if he wakes up in time; otherwise its owner can lay in bed over Sun¬ 
day, and he will bring it back sometime the following Monday. 

“If perchance his fancy does not run to cleaning clothes, he gets him¬ 
self a gasoline stove and other paraphernalia wherewith to defeat the 
vagrant statute, and sets up a lunch counter, where he serves all such as 
care to come his way, irrespective of race, color or previous conditions 
of servitude, with hamburgers, hot catfish and beef sausage, and some¬ 
times sweet spirits of ferment on the side. But should neither of the 
locations appeal to him, he usually opens a colored barber shop with a 
poolroom and crap table in the rear. 

“As soon as the city authorities become obnoxious to him, however, 
he again goes back to the quiet country life, usually right after the 
Christmas holidays, and joins himself to a cotton planter, and by his 
certain written contract duly executed in duplicate, obligates and binds 
himself to cultivate and gather a crop of cotton on the land therein 
described, and on the strength thereof proceeds to eat up anywhere from 
$5 to $300 worth of grub while he is waiting for the ground to get in 
shape to plow, and it very frequently happens that when the trees begin 
to bud and when the birds begin to whistle and the grasshopper begins 
to sing, Mr. Negro is seized with wanderlust and suddenly disappears, 
and the people who once knew him know him no more forever. Every 
delta town also has its full quota of negro women, who, like the lily, toil 
not, neither do they spin, yet the Queen of Sheba in all of her glory was 
never clad like unto one of them. 

“Surely the negro is fearfully and wonderfully made, and his ways 
are past finding out.” 


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That Pack of Cards 


A soldier was once arrested for using a pack of playing cards as a 
Bible in Church. His defense was as follows: 

These cards are both my Bible and Prayer Book. The Ace reminds me 
that there is only one God. The Deuce that the Bible is divided into two 
parts, the Old and New Testaments. The trey brings to mind the Holy 
Trinity—Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The four spot recalls the four 
great Apostles, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The five spot brings 
to mind the five wise virgins, who had their lamps trimmed and ready. 
The six spot, that God created Heaven and Earth in six days and rested 
on the seventh. The seven spot commands me that the Sabbath is a day 
for rest and worship. The eight spot recalls the eight righteous persons, 
namely, Noah, his wife and three sons and their wives, who were saved 
from the flood by being allowed to enter the Ark. The nine spot repre¬ 
sents the nine lepers cleansed by the Saviour. Each of the spots on the 
ten reminds me of one of the Ten Commandments. 

The Knave teaches me to shun the Devil and all his works. The 
Queen reminds me of Mary, the Mother of Jesus to whom all should do 
homage, and the King reminds me of the King of Heaven and Earth, 
to whom all should bow in worship. 

Furthermore, this pack of cards is my almanac. Its number of spots 
is 3 65, the number of days in the year. There are 52 cards in the pack, 
the number of weeks in the year. There are four suits representing the 
four seasons. Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, and each season is 
divided into thirteen weeks, the number of cards in each suit. 


Ill 



Kinsmen and a Few Words in Conclusion 


The Beusse and Evans families are kin to seventy-five percent of 
the people living in Madison, Oglethorpe, and Wilkes Counties,- 
through their different marriage connections, the McCurdys, the 
Griff eths, the Carithers’ the Breedloves, the Gholstons, the Woods, 
the Browns, the Simses, the Winns, the Powers, the Scotts, the Mer- 
ciers, the Davids and others too numerous to mention. They have 
kinsmen scattered all over Georgia and all the other states of the 
Union also have a good many in Europe. 

It was always a pleasure for the writer to visit his kinsman, Cousin 
Jimmie Griffeth, who had a large family and who lived in Oconee 
County, and his aunt, Mrs. W. T. Starks, who lived in Winterville. 
He has also had lots of fun at the home of the Raw’son family, who 
were living on the farm, having spent his summer vacations with 
them. 

With much love for the good old days that are past and gone. 

J. H. BEUUSSE. 

JUST A FEW WORDS IN CONCLUSION. 

In getting up this data and history of the Beusse and Evans 
families, I have found that it was a great deal bigger job than I had 
anticipated, and it will be impossible for me to go into each family 
connection as it had been my intention to do. 

My grandmother was an Allen, who was raised in Wilkes County, 
Georgia. The Allens all served in the Revolution and had good lands 
in Wilkes County, also the Lindseys, also Nathaniel Bullock and his 
family, and Wyatt Bullock, who married Betsy Allen, June 6th, 1803, 
in Oglethorpe County, also Wyatt Hawkins who married Nancy 
Allen, Reuben Allen, William Evans, Silas Mercier, Joseph Allen, 
James Allen, Jacob Lindsey, Daniel Evans, Jesse Evans who moved 
to Mississippi David Evans, Daniel Evans, Nathaniel Bullock, Steph¬ 
ens Evans, and Thomas Evans. All the above named were property 
owners in Wilkes County after the Revolution and owned the biggest 
portion of the western part of Wilkes County, Georgia, and the ma¬ 
jority of them served in the Revolution and part of their lands w T ere 
Bounty Grants on account of their services. 


A HEAD NOTE TO THE FOLLOWING EXTRACTS. 

Nathan Evans, who was a Welshman, moved from Pennsylvania 
to Cheraw, S. C., with his family and other kinsmen and friends in 
1735, and finally located on land granted them by the King of Eng¬ 
land on Catfish. 


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This is to clear up any error that might exist. 

Nathan had several daughters and three sons, Thomas, David and 
Nathan. 

David never married, but came with his brother, Thomas, to 
TV ilkes County, Georgia, in 1784, after the Revolutionary War, and 
they were granted lands for their services in the Revolutionary War. 

Thomas Evans, with other kinsmen, left South Carolina, going 
west and located in Wilkes County, Ga., in 1784. 

Afterwards, Thomas Evans sold his interests to his brother, Nathan, 
who resided on the Catfish, Marion County, S. C., until the time of 
his death. 

J. H. BEUSSE. 

Athens, Ga., April 28th, 1823. 

Extracts from a History of Marion County, S. C., by W. W. Sellers, 
Esq., of the Marion Bar, from its earliest times to the present, 1901. 

“ Evans—The next family the writer will notice is the Evans 
family. Bishop Gregg says, on page 75: “ Nathan Evans was a 
Welshman and settled on Catfish. He either came from the Welsh 
Neck above, soon after his arrival here, or was one of those who went 
first to the lower part of the Welsh tracts, and remained there. 
Landjs in the neighborhood of Tart’s Mill (now Moody’s) were 
granted to Nathan Evans.” Bishop Gregg in a note says on the 
same page, ‘ ‘ Nathan Evans was the grandfather of the late Thomas 
Evans and General William Evans, of Marion. The father of General 
Evans was also named Nathan and was a man of upright character 
through life.” Nathan Evans’ arrival and settlement on Catfish was 
soon after the arrival and settlement of John Godbold, in 1735. 
Gregg further says: David Evans, son of Nathan, was a Captain in 
the Revolution and a man of note. He died childless. About the 
same time two families of James and Lucas came down the river and 
settled on Catfish; with the latter of these the Crawfords and Evanses 
intermarried. Soon after a family of Bakers came from Newborn, 
N. C., to Peedee. One of this name married a daughter of Nathan 
Evans. William Baker was prominent in the Revolution and marked 
for his devotion to the cause of Liberty.” Thus the foundation of 
the Evans family, so far as Marion County is concerned, is laid in 
old Nathan Evans. We are not informed whether he had other sons 
than David and Nathan, and no account of any daughter except that 
one of the name of Baker married a daughter of Nathan Evans. His 
son, Nathan, was the only one to perpetuate the name. The writer 
thinks he married twice (the second Nathan). His first wife was a 
Godbold, by whom he had a son, the late Thomas Evans, and two 
daughters, Mrs. R. J. Gregg, and Mrs. Colonel Levi Legette; there 
may have been other children of the first marriage. Nathan Evans’ 
second wife was a Miss Rogers, (first name not known), a daughter 
of old Lot Rogers, of Upper Marion. By his second wife he had three 
sons and a daughter. The sons were the late Gen. Wm. Evans, Nathan 


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Evans, and Game well Evans; the daughter, Elizabeth A., married 
Alexander Murdock of Marlborough County. The late Thomas Evans 
married a Miss Daniel, a Virginia lady, a most excellent woman and 

a woman of more than ordinary culture for her day and time; the 
fruits of this marriage were ten sons and one daughter. The father, 
Thomas Evans, was quite a prominent man in his day, Representative 
and Senator from his county in the State Legislature, Commissioner 
in Equity, and a useful man generally; he died in middle life—I 
think in 1845; the names of his sons, as remembered, w T ere Chesley 
D., Thomas, Nathan G., James Beverly, Jackson, William,. Asa, Alfred 
and Woodson; the daughter, Sarah, who married: R. L. Singletary,, on 
the west side of Great Peedee River, has children grown and married. 
Chesley D. Evans graduated at the South Carolina College, I think, 
in 1839, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1841; went into 
practice and was elected Commissioner in Equity, which position he 
held for years; he was a delegate to the Secession Convention in 1860, 
was quite a scholarly man and a good lawyer, though not much of 
an advocate; he married in 1850 or 1851, Miss Jane Haselden and 
reared a family of seven sons and one daughter. The sons were 
Junius H., Chesley D., Walker, Samuel, Frank, Leon, Nathan and 
David; and a daughter, Bettie. Of these,'Junius is a practicing law¬ 
yer at Marion; married Miss Florence Durant and has three or four 
children. Chester D. married a Miss Wells; he is dead and left three 
children. Samuel married an English lady and is dead ;he left two 
children. Walker married a Miss McDougal, in upper Marion, and is 
farming and doing well. Frank is in Spartanburg at the head of a 
graded school, and is highly esteemed. (He is still Superintendent 
of the Public Schools of Spartanburg, April 21st, 1923. Alexina 
W. Evans). Where the other two are, Nathan and David, is un¬ 
known, having left Marion. Leon died when a youth. Chesley died 
m May, 1897, at the advanced age of eighty years, being born Jan. 
10th, 1817. Thomas Evans, second son of Thomas Evans, (senior), 
grew up, studied law, practiced for several years, and was appointed 
(I think by President Pierce,) United States District Atorney for 
South Carolina, which position he filled for four years with credit 
to himself and satisfaction to the public. ITe married late in life, 
settled down in Britton’s Neck at a place called Oakton, and soon 
after removed west and died there. Nathan G .Evans, third son of 
Thomas Evans, senior, was educated at West Point and went into 
the regular army of the United States, and when the war between 
the States broke out, loyal to his section, he threw himself on the side 
of the South and was soon appointed by President Davis a Brigadier 
General, and won distinction on many fields, and especially at the 
battle of Leesburg or Ball’s Bluff, where he pursued the Federals to 
the river, completely routed them and besides killing many, others 
sprang off the bluff into the river and were either drowned or killed 
in the water. (Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, 1 vol., 


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437). Gen. N. Geo, Evans (called Shanks at home), married about 
the close of the war a Miss Gary of Edgefield, and by her had several 
.sons and daughters, the number and names unknown to the writer; 

one of the sons, John Gary Evans, is now an ex-Governor of South 
Carolina. Gen. Evans removed to Edgefield after his marriage and 
^ere several years ago.* A true South Carolinian and a gallant 
soldier, his face was ever to the front. James E. Evans, another son 
of Thomas Evans, (senior), was a doctor and did service in the war 
as a surgeon; he married a Virginia lady and after the war returned 
to South Carolina, located as a physician at Little Rock, in his native 
county, and remained there doing a good practice for several years; 
'hen removed to Florence and continued parctice there till the pres¬ 
ent time. He is eminent in his profession, is Secretary to the State 
Board of Health, and President of the State Board of Medical Ex¬ 
aminers for the examination of applicants to practice medicine in the 
States, as required by law—quite a distinguished position; he is a 
man of high character and of excellent morals; has a family of grown 
children, the number and names unknown to the writer ; has a daugh¬ 
ter married to Hon. F. B. Gary, present Speaker of the House of 
Representatives of the South Carolina Legislature, and at present a 
candidate for Governor of the State. Another son of Thomas Evans 
(senior), William, who was in the navy under Admiral Semmes on 
the Alabama, during the war, and an officer of what rank is now 
unknown, and was perhaps a graduate of the Naval Academy at 
Annapolis, Md.; he was a brave Carolinian and a staunch supporter 
of the Confederacy; he never married and died some years ago and 
was buried in his native town. Two other sons of Thomas Evans, 
''Senior), Jackson and Beverly, left this country years ago and went 
West; they were unmarried when they left Marion; don’t know what 
has become of them. Another son, Captain A. L. Evans, now Deputy 
Clerk of Court, of Thomas Evans, (Senior), volunteered early in the 
war and remained in it to the last, a gallant soldier, contending for 
the rights of his section; he was Adjutant in his brother’s, N. G. 
Evans brigade, and went through all the battles in which it was en¬ 
gaged during the war, from Virginia to Mississippi, always at his 
post and did his full duty; he married a daughter of the late Horatio 
McClenaghan, and by her has had five children, two sons and three 
daughters; one daughter married. Two other sons of Thomas Evans 
(Senior), were Alfred and Woodson. Soon after the war, Alfred, a 
young man, went West; I have lost sight of him and cannot say what 
has become of him. Woodson, the youngest son, just as he was enter¬ 
ing into manhood, sickened and died. That family of Evans did 
much for the ‘ ‘ lost cause ’ ’; their whole soul was in it and went down 
with it, not whipped, but simply overcome by the number and re¬ 
sources of the enemy. 

Gen. William Evans, a son of Nathan, the second by his second 
marriage, was born in 1804, grew up to manhood and married Miss 


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Sarah Ann Godbold, daughter of Gen. Thomas Godbold; settled down 
at the place just north of Marion, and went to farming; he succeeded 
veil in his chosen occupation and amassed a large property; he had 
only two sons, James Hamilton and William Thomas; the latter is 
now sheriff (second term) of the county; and seven daughters, viz: 
Catherine, Mary, Eliza Jane, Louisa, Ann M., Rosa and Margaret. 
The oldest son, James Hamilton, was a graduate of the University of 
North Carolina. He married a Miss Amelia Legette daughter of 
Rev. David Legette, and lived to a few years back and died childless. 
William Thomas grew up to manhood just in time to strike the war; 
he was in college, left it and came home, volunteered and went into 
the war and made a good soldier, remained in it till the last; came 
home and married a Miss Stith of Wilson, N. C.; by her he had one 
child, a daughter; soon after, his wife died and he was not remar¬ 
ried; his daughter was raised by her grandmother Evans and married 
Henry I. Gasque; had two children for him, a daughter and a son; 
she died three or four years ago, leaving her two children and hus¬ 
band. Thus it appears that the name of Evans, so far as the sops 
of the General are concerned, will become extinct, unless the Sheriff, 
W. T. Evans, should marry again and thereby perpetuate his name. 
Gen. Evans’ oldest daughter, Catherine, died not long after reaching 
womanhood, unmarried; his daughter, Mary, married A. J. Requier, 
a lawyer who afterwards moved to Mobile where Requier became 
distinguished as a lawyer, a man of erudition; his wife, Mary, died in 
Mobile, childless. His daughter, Eliza Jane, married Dr. Dixon 
Evans, of Fayetteville, N. C., preserving her identity as an Evans. 
Dr. Dixon Evans died at Marion a few years ago leaving three sons 
and three daughters; of the sons, Charles E. Evans, now of Marion, 
is the oldest. He married Miss Sophie Miles, daughter of Dr. D. F. 
Miles, Clerk of Court. The next son, Win. A., grew up and went 
West; his whereabouts are unknown to the writer. The third and last 
son of Dr. Dixon Evans is named Joseph, a young man, unmarried. 
Of Dr. Dixon Evans’ daughters, the oldest is the wife of R. R. Mul¬ 
lins, of Marion; the second daughter, Kate, married W. IT. Cross, 
cashier of the Merchants and Farmers Bank at Marion; she died three 
or four years ago and left two or three children. Another daughter, 
Amelia, married a Mr. Glover of Fayetteville, N. C. Gen. Evans’ 
daughter, Louiza, married, first a Mr. McEachern, of North Carolina; 
by him she had two daughters,, when McEachern died. The widow in 
a few years married Rev. W. C. Power an itinerant Methodist minis¬ 
ter, and by him, I think, she has six children, three sons and three 
daughters. Gen. Evans’ daughter, Anna M., married Col. John G.' 
Blue of North Carolina; he was a graduate of the University of North 
Carolina, and a lawyer. Col. Blue raised three sons and five daugh¬ 
ters. One son, Rupert, is a doctor, and has, for several years, been 
a surgeon in the United States Army and stands well as such. An¬ 
other son, Victor Blue, graduated some years ago at Annapolis, Md., 

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and lias been in the navy ever since his graduation. He acquired 
distinction by heroic deeds in the late Spanish-American War, and is 
well on the road to an Admiralship, the highest honor that can be 
attained in the branch of his countrys service—a Marion boy, of 
whom Marion and the whole State are justly proud; he is a fine 
specimen of manhood physically; he recently married a daughter of 
some naval Captain. William, his third son, is still single and lives 
with his mother and carries on the farm; he is now Treasurer of the 
County; one daughter, Sallie, married Peter John of Marlboro Coun¬ 
ty ; another, Effie, married Edward B. Wheeler, of Marion; another, 
Ida married James John of North Carolina. The two other daugh¬ 
ters, Kate and Hettie, never married. Miss Kate has attained some 
celebrity as a writer. Another daughter, Rosa, married Capt. Dun¬ 
can McIntyre, but died childless. The youngest daughter, Margaret, 
married Major S. A. Durham. 

Gen. William Evans was a prominent man in his day. He was a 
large and active man, handsome and of fine address, and much of a 
man physically. He was chosen as one of the delegates to the Nulli¬ 
fication Convention in 1832, and was one of the signers of the Ordi¬ 
nance of Nullification passed by that body. In 1838 he was elected 
to the House of Representatives. He was a man of fine sense, but not 
a scholar; he devoted himself almost exclusively to his farm, at which 
he succeeded well, made a large property in lands and slaves and 
kept out of debt. At the time of emancipation he owned over 100 
slaves. It seemed that everything he touched “turned to gold”—it 
prospered in his hands. He died sitting on the steps of his front 
piazza, suddenly, on the 6th of June, 1876, at the age of 72 years. 

Nathan Evans, a younger brother of Gen. Wm. Evans, and a grand¬ 
son of the first old Nathan, was born in 1805; was a worthy man and 
an excellent citizen; a gentleman of fine taste, affable and very popu¬ 
lar with everybody. He married a Miss Baker, below Marion, a 
•laughter of William and Annise Baker, by whom he had four child¬ 
ren, two sons and two daughters, William B., who married, first 
Maggie Haselden, and then Sue Berry, by whom he had five daughters 
and three sons; Nathan unmarried; Lizzie, who married W. W. 
Brady, who married Mr. Cole and died childless; Nathan Evans mar¬ 
ried the second time a Miss Harriet Braddy, of upper Marion, and 
had two sons, Julius and Lawrence; and ttvo daughters, Martha and 
Fannie. Nathan’s daughter, Lizzie, had a daughter named Walker, 
who married J. W. Davis of Marion. They moved to Alabama and 
left three sons, Willie, Hicks and Elbert. Nathan Evans, the third, 
was one of nature’s noblemen; had great good sense, was energetic 
and upright in every respect; always lent his ear to a tale of suffer¬ 
ing; had a kind and sympathetic heart, and would help his neighbor 
in distress, if it was in his power, often to his own injury; he in¬ 
jured himself by becoming surety for others. He was a more popular 
man than his brother, the General; yet he never aspired to the 


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honors of office but once, and then not of his own motion, but being 
urged by his friends, he became a candidate for Representative in 
the State Legislature in 1858, and though the contest was heated, 
he was triumphantly elected at the head of the ticket. ’ ’ 


*Gen. N. C. Evans had three sons, John Gary, George and Bernard 
B., and one daughter, Mary, who has never married and still lives in 
Edgefield. George is dead, Barnard B. practices law in Columbia, and 
John Gary, in Spartanburg. 


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INDEX 


An Appreciation _ 3 

Our Neighbors _ 4 

Capt. Henry Beusse_ 5 

Beusse Family Record_ 10 

Life of Jesse H. Bensse_ 23 

Muster Roll, Co. G., Spanish-American War_ 30 

Sketches of Members of Families_ 34 

Life of W. F. Dorsey_ 34 

Life of Thos. Elder Middlebrooks_ 35 

Grandparents of Mrs. T. E. Middlebrooks_ 35 

Life of Dr. R. V. Harris_ 36 

Life of Winfield R. Nesbit_ 36 

Middlebrooks Family Record_ 37 

Letter to National Cyclopedia of American Biography_ 39 

Facts About Wilkes County_ 41 

Life of R. H. Bullock_ 45 

Kinsmen _ 46 

Stephenses _ 47 

Copy of Will of Jno. Lindsey_ 50 

Marriage Record of Kinsmen_ 52 

The Evans Family_ 55 

Welsh Settlements in South Carolina_ 72 

St. David’s Society, Cheraw, S. C- 89 

Record of Old Cheraws who served in the Revolution- 92 

Letters from Archives of Georgia, Pennsylvania, and other 
States and War Records of Evans Family- 100 

* 

The Colored Citizens of Athens and Some of Their Charac¬ 
teristics - 108 

That Pack of Cards- 111 

Kinsmen and a Few Words in Conclusion- 112 






























































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